High Melton No. 2 / Melton-on-the-Hill / Middeltin

INFORMATION

FontID: 11156MEL
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, by the blocked N door
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
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. Armitage (1905) reports the blocked North door, "at the side of which is the niche for a holy water stoup." Noted in Morris (1932): "Stoup inside blocked N. door." [cf. Index entry for High Melton No. 1 for a baptismal font of the same period in 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

REFERENCES

Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932