High Melton No. 1 / Melton-on-the-Hill / Middeltun
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2006 by Nigel Homer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/116916] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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view of church interior - chancel - Holy Rood
Scene Description: Source caption: "Marvellous reredos in St.James' church, by Sir Ninian Comper 1905-7"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5225946] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rood Screen. Fabulous rood screen in St.James' church, by Sir Ninian Comper 1905-7"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5225945] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.James' nave. View east inside St.James' church with 12th century S arcade and splendid rood screen by Sir Ninian Comper 1905-07."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5192665] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11142MEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James [earlier dedication to All Hallows]
Church Location: Doncaster DN5 7SZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1709 892598
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M), 8 km W of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [High] Melton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5001/high-melton/] [accessed 9 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 6 April 1853 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has a cylindrical bowl." Armitage (1905) notes: "There is an old and ugly font, shaped like a Roman amphora." Noted in Morris (1932) as "a very unusual, very plain, cup-shaped example" of a font probably of the Transitional period. Harman & Pevsner (2027) reckon the small nave "is perhaps of Saxon origin", the chancel later Norman; they mention no font in this church]. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "Morris [(1923), 352-3] also describes the font as: ‘Plain cup-font – possibly Transitional’. Apart from the upper 0.1 to 0.15m which is a separate stone, perhaps it is not even a medieval work." [cf. Index entry for High Melton No. 2 for a stoup listed for this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5109, -1.233
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 30′ 39.24″ N, 1° 13′ 58.8″ W
UTM: 30U 617174 5930559
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cup-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932