Aysgarth No. 2 / Aykeskarth / Echescard

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 11 records
LF01: angel - 3
P01: inscription
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking north
view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
view of font cover
view of object
INFORMATION
FontID: 11051AYS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Ln, Aysgarth, Leyburn DL8 3SR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1969 663097
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located N of the A684, on the S bank of the Ure river, 7-8 km W of Leyburn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side of the nave
Date: ca. 1866?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Late Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Aysgarth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE0088/aysgarth/] [accessed 19 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's visit of probably 1842 (in Butler, 2007) notes: "The font is modern." Pevsner (1985) notes: "Font. On three child angels. High Victorian." The Font consists of an octagonal basin raised of three standing praying child-angels, a round lower base with an inscription, and a plain round plinth. Wooden font in the Jacobean style, consisting of an octagonal lower volume with vertical sides, molded and carved, and a domed upper volume with a long knob finial; the cover is raised by way of a counterweight mechanism. There is also a cylindrical vessel, font or holy-water stoup along the north wall of the nave, but it is probably of a late date as well [NB: the original church was built in the 14th century and later enlarged and renovated in the 16th; the current font must date from the 1866 restoration]. [cf. Index entry for Aysgarth No. 1 for a posible earlier font from this site]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.292122, -1.983067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 17′ 31.64″ N, 1° 58′ 59.04″ W
UTM: 30U 566191 6016501
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: around the round lower base
Inscription Text: "THE […] TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THREE LITTLE ONES"
Inscription Source: ImageArea
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966