Dalton nr. Thirsk / Dalton in Hambleton / Deltone / Deltune

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. John the Evangelist Church, Dalton. Grade II Listed Building built by William Butterfield in 1868, serving the ecclesiastical needs of Dalton village."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2015 by Chris Heaton [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/4723309] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12063DAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Dalton, North Yorkshire, YO7 3JA, UK -- Tel.: 01845 578513

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A168, about 9 km S of Thirsk

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Yarlestre -- formerly NRYrks

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.

Church Notes: present daychurch is 1868 re-building by William Butterfield

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Dalton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4376/dalton/] [accessed 5 November 2018]; it reports two priests and "1 church. 1.0 church lands" in it. Octagonal mounted font, the basin sides decorated with trefoil and quatrefoil motifs. Modern, probably 19th-century [NB: we have no information on the font from tthe Domesday-time church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.18064, -1.335

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 10′ 50.3″ N, 1° 20′ 6″ W

UTM: 30U 608662 6004900

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle