Wragby nr. Pontefract
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2006
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2006
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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design element - motifs - zigzag
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060924007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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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?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Betty Longbottom, 2010
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2013 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/PhotoFrames/WRY/NostellPrioryStMichaelInside.html] [accessed 27 February 2015]
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view of object in context
Scene Description: a basin kept in the church: origin and function unknown
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11127WRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Woodborough (Notts.), for example
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and Our Lady [originally from the disappeared church at Auburn, East Yorkshire?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Wragby, in the W end of the nave, S side, just W of the entrance
Church Address: Nostell Priory, Wragby, West Yorkshire, WF4 1QE, United kingdom
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: recycled font: rescued from now submerged church / altered font / restored font / composite font: the base is 19th-century -- MUST USE [cf. FontNotes] HAVE PICTS
Font Notes:
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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.
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 606785 5945823
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.650258, -1.384374
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 39′ 0.93″ N, 1° 23′ 3.74″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 442
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 762
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 424
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 547
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 560
- [The Editor], "Relic of a church claimed by the sea", 14 Nov., 2002, Yorkshire Pride, 2002