Skidby/ Schidebi
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
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view of font and cover in context
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
Font ID: 12110SKI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Skidby
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: 79 Main St, Skidby, Cottingham HU16 5TX, United Kingdom
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A164, just W of Cottingham, WNW of Hull
Historical Region: Hundred of Welton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the medieval font(s) of this church
Font Notes:
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A modern wooden font in Skidby 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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-20th century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain and flat, with a Latin cross finial/handle