Wragby

Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

Results: 12 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - semicircle

Scene Description: on one of the sides; they appear to have been trimmed at the bottom; was the lower part of the basin cut off?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2010 by Betty Longbottom [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1894619] [accessed 27 February 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2013 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/PhotoFrames/WRY/NostellPrioryStMichaelInside.html] [accessed 27 February 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of object

Scene Description: a basin kept in the church: origin and function unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of object in context

Scene Description: a basin kept in the church: origin and function unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11127WRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and Our Lady [originally from the disappeared church at Auburn, East Yorkshire?]

Church Location: Nostell Priory, Wragby, West Yorkshire, WF4 1QE

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the A638, 8 km SW of Pontefract, 10 km ESE of Wakefield [Auburn, now disappeared, was located 6 km from Bridlington, in the coast, East Yorkshire]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales

Historical Region: Hundred of Wraggoe [in Domesday] -- Wapentake of Osgoldcross

Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Wragby, in the W end of the nave, S side, just W of the entrance

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: the font at Woodborough (Notts.), for example

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Morris (1932) notes: "Circular Norm[an] font, with chevron moulding, on a modern base. This [...] is said to come from elsewhere." Mee (1941) notes "the Norman bowl of the font, carved with crude zigzag. It is said to have been brought from Auburn church (near Bridlington) before the sea washed the church away." Betjeman (1958) notes: "Norman font once in Auburn church, E[ast] Riding." In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Norman, cylindrical, with many large zigzags." An article by the editor in 'Yorkshire Pride' (2002) on the parish church at Wragby provides information on the reason for the move of the font: "The building contains the font from the submerged church of Auburn, one of the many of the former Yorkshire coast communities which over the centuries have vanished beneath the North Sea. The font is believed to be the only remaining relic of what was once a thriving village. The font was removed from Auburn by the Strickland family of Boynton in the East Riding when the church was threatened and was transferred to Wragby in about 1830." [source: [www.fabulousfifties.co.uk/yokshire/showstory.asp...]]. The cylindrical basin, which may have been trimnmed at the bottom [to be checked in situ], is now raised on a 19th-century (?) pedestal base consisting of a plain stem and a moulded lower base, both circular. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain, quite thick; not modern. Noted and illustrated by Rita Wood (2006) in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: "The font from Auburn, one of several settlements lost to the sea in medieval times, is now at Wragby, near Nostell" The church houses a basin-like object [cf. Images area] the origin and function of which are not known, though it resembles somewhat a late baptismal basin, as well as a garden planter.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.650258, -1.384374

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 0.93″ N, 1° 23′ 3.74″ W

UTM: 30U 606785 5945823

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: [unknown]

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2007-12-31 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967

[The Editor], "Relic of a church claimed by the sea", 14 Nov., 2002, Yorkshire Pride, 2002