Goathland No. 1 / Goadland
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2004 by Misterweiss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goathland_Church.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2018 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5985335] [accessed 3 January 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12630GOA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary
Church Address: Goathland, Whitby YO22 5AN, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km SSW of Whitby
Additional Comments: re-cycled font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Goathland in the Domesday survey. Reported in the Goadland or Goathland entry in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the old font, supposed to be of Saxon origin, was lately discovered by Dr. Hibbert Wear in a farmyard, and is now set up in the church of St. Matthew at Grosmont."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 647601 6029824
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.39474, -0.7265
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 23′ 41.06″ N, 0° 43′ 35.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50983] [accessed 6 February 2007]