Grinton No. 2 / Grenton / Grunton
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view of font cover
Scene Description: note the nine-side plant
INFORMATION
FontID: 11483GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Swale Hall Lane, Grinton, North Yorkshire DL11 6HS
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the B6370, in the Arkengarthdale, about 35 km WSW of Darlington (take the A1 S to Scotch Corner; then W on the A6108 until about 2 km before -i.e., N of- Downholme, where a yellow road connects with Grinton)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ripon
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on the missing nine-sided font to match the font-cover.
Font Notes:
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Hinson [cf. infra] noted that the present font cover is nonnagonal [enneagonal, nine-sides] and that "apparently the present font in the church was dug up in the churchyard at some time, [...] and replaced the nine-sided font"; this same source reports that the present whereabouts of the nonagonal font are unkown to the locals. [source: e-mail from C. Hinson to BSI of 4 February 2006]. [cf. Index entry for Grinton No. 1 for the earlier baptismal dug up and used to replace the nine-sided font probably of the 15th century]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.381435, -1.930221
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 22′ 53.17″ N, 1° 55′ 48.8″ W
UTM: 30U 569480 6026489
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: nonagonal (mounted) [enneagonal]
Basin Interior Shape: [round?]
Basin Exterior Shape: nonagonal [enneagonal]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes, counterweight
Notes: [entered with Grinton No. 1]