Goathland No. 2 / Goadland

Butler (2007) footnotes Glynne's entry of July 1857 for Egton St. Hilda's: "the font recorded by Glynne is now at Goathland's church." Yet another baptismal font that has been re-cut to a point where it is difficult to guess whether or not it originally had any distinctive characteristics. The font now at St. Mary's is said to be the font from Egdon St. Hilda's, only a few miles north of its present location. It consists of a plain round basin, the upper half re-cut to roughly cylindrical, the lower turned into a tall chamfer, raised on a circular stem with a round-to-square lower base and a lower base that is also square, with a wide chamfer, all the parts totally plain. The oak font cover is probably from the date of the church itself, the early 20th century, octagonal and with a set of curved ribs in the style of the Jacobean covers of the 17th century; it bears an inscription that includes a personal name (Gabriel de la Bere?), perhaps the donor. [NB: Egton St Hilda's, a Norman and Early English edifice, was reported as demolished in Bulmer's 1890 Directory].