Lissett / Lessette

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12497LIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. James of Compostella, Lissett
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Main St, Lissett, Driffield YO25 8PY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1262 488042
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A165, at the B1242 crossroads, 8 km S of Bridlignton
Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (the base may be a later addition)
Font Notes:
Bulmer's Directory of 1892 reports: "The font is circular and ancient". Noted in the Victoria County History (East Riding of Yorkshire, 2002): "12th-century circular font". The entry for this church in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=4051] [accessed 2 July 2025] notes and illustrates the font and gives its measurements: "Font. There is a plain tub font which tapers slightly"; the illustration shoe a plain bucket-shaped basin on a plain octagonal broad base decorated with a simpe chamfer around the top; the basin shows a large metal staple at the upper rim but there is no cover present. [NB: the broad octagonal base may be a later addition, although the CRSBI entry does not comment on it].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 52.3 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Depth: 28.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54.2 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Beeford/Beeford92.html] [accessed 7 January 2006]