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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12949EGT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hedda (RC)
Church Patron Saints: St. Hedda
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A171, SE of Whitby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th - 20th century (?), Modern
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on, and photographs of, this font.
Font Notes:
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A modern font consisting of a hemispherical basin the sides of which are decorated with a pattern of stylised foliage, raised on a round pedestal base ornamented with fluting and with a lower moulded part; raised on a small quadrangular plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and Latin cross. [NB: St. Hedda's was built on an earlier chapel, but we have no information on the adtes of that chapel, and whether or not a font existed in it].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 645167 6034347
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]