Bishopthorpe / Badetorp / Badetorpes / St Andrewthorpe / Thorp-super-Usam / Thorpe St. Andrew / horpe-on-Ouse

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Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Old Church, Bishopthorpe. Sited next to the Archbishop of York's Palace in Bishopthorpe, a church dedicated to St. Andrew existed here in the 1220s and was replaced by a second (or possibly third) building in around 1768. The surviving west wall was possibly added during restoration work in 1842. Due to constant erosion of the west bank of the River Ouse the building's foundations had become unsafe by the end of the 19th century and a new church was built west of the Palace on Bishopthorpe Road. Services ceased in the old church and began in the new one in July 1899, after which most of the old building was demolished leaving only the gothic façade and a few gravestones. Nowadays there is an ongoing restoration project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to salvage what remains of the old church and much of the remaining structure has been repaired with new stone."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2007 by Paul Glazzard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/574437] [accessed 11 October 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11163BIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Bishopthorpe, York YO23 2QG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1904 700088

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: The St. Crux Parish Room or Hall [all that remains from old St. Crux'] is located on the NW side of Pavement. Bishopthorpe is located off (S) the A64, 5 km SSW of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Ainsty

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for Bishopthorpe [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5947/bishopthorpe/] [accessed 10 October 2018] none of which mention cleric or church in it. Morris (1932) reports here "a Perp[endicular] font that is said to have come from the destroyed church of St. Crux, at York." The RCHM (York, 1962- ) reports an "octagonal bowl on octagonal shaft with moulded cap and base, 15th-century; now at St. Andrew's, Bishopthorpe", originally from York St. Crux'. The present Church of St. Andrew's at Bishopthorpe is late-19th century. Only a shell remains of the old parish church at Bishopthorpe. [NB: St. Crux was originally a medieval church but was re-built ca. 1424; it was deemed unsafe, closed and demolished in the late-19th century, its fittings disseminated among various ofther churches of York; some of the old stonework went into the building of the St. Crux Parish Hall]. [cf. BSI entry for York No. 38 for the disappeared font from the original Church of St Crux]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.92, -1.1

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 55′ 12″ N, 1° 6′ 0″ W

UTM: 30U 624776 5976293

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the city of York, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1962-

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