Scorborough / Scogerbuth

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
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Results: 5 records
view of basin - interior
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 12108SCO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the A164, just 6 km NNW of Beverley, 13 km S of Driffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The baptismal font now at Scorborough St Leonard's must be the replacement font installed during the re-building of this church in the 1850s; it consists of a round basin with a pronounced upper rim and a graded underbowl chamfer, the sides themselves decorated with large quatrefoils with inscribed rosettes and other motifs and/or symbols; the spandrels of the quatrefoils are filled with foliage; the inner well of the basin is lined with lead and has a central drain; the basin is raised on a cluster of centre and outer shafts, the latter decorated with mouldings. Wooden cover of the period. Next to the font stands a tiny octagonal stone basin, plain but for a groove all around the upper basin sides; it could be a portable font or a holy-water stoup, and it must be modern. [NB: we have no information on the original font(s) of this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 667045 5974889
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]