Thixendale
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12119THI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A166, about 25 km ENE of York (accessible also from Wharram-le-Street via the B1248)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in W end of the N aisle
Date: ca. 1870?
Century and Period: 19th century (late?), Late Victorian
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
Baptismal font probably from the date of the church itself, 1870; it consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with pairs of trefoil windows/arches, the upper rim chamfered, the lower rim splaying; graded underbowl chamfer; moulded octagonal pedestal base. Octagonal wooden font cover, flat, with metal decorations and ring handle; contemporary. The Parish web site [www.thixendalechurch.co.uk/about.html] reports the existence in medieval times of a chapel-at-ease dedicated to St. Stephen here; it was, according to the same source, closed after 1541 [NB: we have no information on whether or not the chapel had baptismal functions].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: late 19th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]