Neswick / Nessuinc / Nessvinc
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Image Source: illustration in Old England (1845: 506)
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Image Source: illustration by J. Basire in Gough (1792: pl. XXIV)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
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Image Source: illustration by J. Basire in Gough (1792: pl. XXIV)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11451NES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Ancaster, Lins., for example
Church / Chapel Name: [Parish Church?]
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 1 km NE of Bainton, 10 km SW of Driffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Wapentake of Harthill -- Hundred of Driffield
Font Notes:
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The Domesday survey (1086) lists 'Nessvic' and its manor, but mentions no church in it. Font noted with an illustration by J. Basire in Gough (1792): tub-shaped baptismal font, the sides decorated with intersecting round arches, the supports reaching all the way down. Another illustration of this font appears in Old England (1845). There is no mention of the church or chapel in Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872, but the Hall here is mentioned as "a chief residence". Neswick Hall was demolished in 1954, and there does not seem to be a church here any longer. There is no mention of the church in Pevsner (1995). [NB: the only record we have of this is bibliographical]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 188 and pl. XXIV
- Knight, Charles, Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal and popular antiquities, London: Charles Knight & Co., Ludgate Street, 1845, fig. 506
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcribed in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13780 [accessed 10 April 2013]]