Great Ayton / Atun / Ayton Magna / Canny Yatton

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Doorway arch, All Saints Church, Great Ayton The doorway arch has chevron mouldings characteristic of the Norman style."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Great Ayton. The childhood church of Captain Cook. A number of family members are buried here."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Buckingham, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2011 by Paul Buckingham [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2298751] [accessed 17 December 2019]

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view of church interior - looking southwest

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of All Saints Church, Great Ayton. The candlelit interior contains mainly 18th century furnishings including a three decker pulpit and sounding board."

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of All Saints Church, Great Ayton. Famous for its connection with Captain James Cook, who worshipped here as a boy, the church contains memorials to Cook's patron, Thomas Skottowe, and friend, Commodore Wilson."

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font at Christ Church, Great Ayton. The new church was opened in May 1876 and consecrated in March 1877 by the Archbishop of York."

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: "The font is apparently of the 12th century and consists of a circular stone bowl moulded on the edge standing on a circular shaft. It has a short pyramidal 18th-century cover" [VCH entry [cf. FonrtNotes]]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11052AYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Sanits [disused]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 1 Low Green, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough TS9 6NN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1642 722975
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A173, E of the A172, 4-5 km NE of Stokesley, 8-10 km SE of Middlesbrough town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Langbaurgh
Font Location in Church: Inside the old church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There is an entry for [Great] Ayton [varian spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ5610/great-ayton/] [accessed 17 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "There was a church at Ayton in the fee of the Count of Mortain at the time of the Domesday Survey. [cf. supra] [...] At the beginning of the 12th century Robert de Meynell and his wife Gertrude granted the church, with its chapels of Newton, Nunthorpe, and Little Ayton, to Whitby Abbey. [...] The old church of ALL SAINTS, since the erection of the new church on another site in 1876, has been used only as a mortuary chapel. It is now in a dilapidated state and its repair is much to be desired. The building is substantially of 12th-century date, but three pre-Conquest stones forming two crossheads found in the vicarage garden [...] suggest that it replaced an earlier church. The building was much altered in 1790 [...] The font is apparently of the 12th century and consists of a circular stone bowl moulded on the edge standing on a circular shaft. It has a short pyramidal 18th-century cover. [...] The new CHRIST CHURCH [...] is of stone in the style of the 14th century with slated roofs. At the east end of the south aisle are the three pre-Conquest fragments already mentioned." Morris (1931) notes: "Early Norm[an] circular font." The baptismal font in the new church -Christ Church- is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.48981, -1.1428
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 29′ 23.32″ N, 1° 8′ 34.08″ W
UTM: 30U 620298 6039608

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: conical with ball finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931