Wressle / Weresa / Weressa
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12120WRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John of Beverley, Wressle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John of Beverley
Church Address: Wressle, York YO8 6ES, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1430 432056
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A63, about 6 km WNW of Howden, 11 km E of Selby
Historical Region: Hundred of Hessle [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the original font of the old disappeared church
Font Notes:
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There are two multiple entries that include Wressle [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7031/wressle/] [accessed 28 June 2025], one of which, in the tenancy of Gilbert Tison, reports a church in it.
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain rounded sides, raised on a a moulded octagonal pedestal base. It may belong to the rebuilding of this church in 1799, though it looks very modern [NB: the earlier church is said to have been demolished by Cromwell in the mid-17th century -- we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain rounded sides, raised on a a moulded octagonal pedestal base. It may belong to the rebuilding of this church in 1799, though it looks very modern [NB: the earlier church is said to have been demolished by Cromwell in the mid-17th century -- we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-20th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with metal finial