Acaster Malbis / Acastra
Image copyright © Stephen G. Hipperson, 2015
Permission received from the author 21 September 2018
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen G. Hipperson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2015 (?) by Stephen G. Hipperson at Ecclesiarum [https://ecclesiarum.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/font_mg_7305.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author 21 September 2018
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Henderson, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2006 by Bill Henderson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/229546] [accessed 26 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11125ACA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Acaster Malbis, North Yorkshire, YO23 2XB, United Kingdom
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Bishopthorpe, 8 km S of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Ainsty
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Acaster Malbis [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE5845/acaster-malbis/] [accessed 26 July 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's visit of 25 March 1825 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is plain and round, and supported on a circular pillar." Bulmer's Directory of 1890 describes the original pre-1360 church in this site and note that: "at the west end of the church was a font". Morris (1932) notes: "Plain circular font, probably Dec[orated]" [i.e., 1250 to 1350]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5937545837] notes: "medieval tub font on stepped, cylindrical base." Harman & Pevsner (2017) report a medieval tub here.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Stephen G. Hipperson [https://stephenhip.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/if-you-have-to-work-somewhere/] for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625097 5974327
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.90226, -1.09591
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 54′ 8.14″ N, 1° 5′ 45.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ARY/Acastermalbis/Acastermalbis.html]
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 57
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 81
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 70