Cawood No. 1 / Carwood

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Results: 6 records

view of font and cover

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design element - motifs - groove

Scene Description: notice the repair on the upper side
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints, Church [...] A grade I listed church, dated C12-C15, with C19 and C20 rebuilding and restoration. Magnesian limestone ashlar with red plain tile roof."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Kirby, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2014 by Mike Kirby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4150626] [accessed 31 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - nave - east end - looking south

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11165CAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the E end of the S aisle [probably moved from iys original position]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church End, Cawood, Selby YO8 3SN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1757 268273
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km from Selby, 16 km S of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for Cawood in the Domesday survey. Glynne's 26 March 1825 church visit entry notes (in Butler, 2007) read: "The font is octagon and plain; and there is a small square basin supported on a shaft, and adorned with toothed moulding, which seems also to have been a font." Morris (1932) has: Octagonal font, probably Perp[endicular]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5777937798] notes: "Church. C12-C15 with C19 and C20 rebuilding and restoration" but mentions no font in it. The Canwood Parish site notes: "The earliest part of the present building dates from around 1150 but an earlier building seems almost certain. [...] It is not until 1294 that there is definite reference to this church despite the fact that Cawood was one of the homes of the Archbishops of York for seven centuries from 937 AD. It is likely that the church was used as a chapel by the Castle up to 1271 when a chapel at the Castle is mentioned"; a font is mentioned twice in this source but no details are given. No font mentioned in the entry for this church in Harman & Pevsner (2017).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 623457 5966551
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.8328, -1.124
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 49′ 58.08″ N, 1° 7′ 26.4″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal wooden cover; modern [NB: there are traces of old staples from the old cover in the uppr rim

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 142
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 150