Foston on the Wolds / Fodstone

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - west end - looking north

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12204FOS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Foston, East Riding of Yorkshire YO25 8FJ
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshires and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the B1248, 3 km N of North Frodingham, 9 km ESE of Driffield, 13 km SW of Bridlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Torbar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
There is an entry for this Foston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1055/foston-on-the-wolds/] [accessed 28 August 2014], and it reports a church in it. A font here is noted in Bulmer's Directory of 1892 simply as "circular and ancient" [source: 1999 transcription by Colin Hinson & Peter Nelson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Fostononthewolds/Fostononthewolds92.htm] [accessed 21 September 2006]. There is no mention of any font in Pevsner & Neave (1995). English Heritage [Listing NGR: TA1006455819] (1966) reports a "C12 tub font" in this church. The font consists of a plain cylindrical basin raised on a circular brick plinth; the interior of the basin is lead lined. There is damage to the upper rim of the basin, probably where the metal staples of the old cover were located. Plain and flat cover, modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.98621, -0.32308
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 59′ 10.36″ N, 0° 19′ 23.09″ W
UTM: 30U 675509 5985305

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892