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Scene Description: modern wooden font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12110SKI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the A164, just W of Cottingham, WNW of Hull
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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
A modern wooden font in Skiby St. Michael's [NB: another such is now [2006] used for baptisms at Beverley St. Mary's instead of the old medieval font]. [NB: St Michael church dates from the 13th century but we have no information of the earlier font(s) of this church].
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-20th century
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain and flat, with a Latin cross finial/handle