Healaugh No. 1 / Hailaga / Healaugh Park / Helagh / Helaugh

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Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Beautifully carved south doorway dating from around 1150. Mostly still in a good state of preservation despite centuries of weathering."

view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carvings over the south door of the church. The figures may represent the patrons of the church at the time of its construction around 1150."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995470] [accessed 2 October 2019]

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail of carving on the 11th century doorway of St John's church showing foliage trails issuing from animal masks on the colonnettes, above which are 4 orders of carved arches [3 visible here] with carved faces and a series of beaked heads."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995459] [accessed 2 October 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2016 buy Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4835023] [accessed 2 October 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

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Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12953HEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist [may have been dedicated to St. Helen earlier]

Church Location: Wighill Ln, Healaugh, Tadcaster LS24 8DA, UK -- Tel.: +44 937 830933 / +44 795 302119

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the B6270, 5 km N of Tadcaster, 12-15 km WSW of York, 20 km NE of Leeds

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Ainsty

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and modern font.

Church Notes: there may have been a church of some sort here since the 7thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Healaugh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4947/healaugh/] [accessed 2 October 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. There is no font mentioned in Glynne's entry of his visit to this church 25 August 1868. The entry for this church by Rita Wood in the CRSBI (2019) gives the date of the present church in the mid-12th century. The present baptismal font that appears to have been designed by an Italian pastry chef, and probably dated to the rebuilding of the church in 1868; the upper volume, corresponding to the basin, is octagonal and shallow, the sides decorated with a band of nail-head between mouldings; below it is a narrower volume, also octagonal, the sides of which are decorated with a variaty of patterns: trellis, scroll, etc.; the next volume down is cake-like and has piping pattern all around; below it is a moulded band; raised on a round plinth. The wooden cover, probably of the same date, is based on the Jacobean eight-ribs-around-a-pivot, but the ribs have nail-head spines. [NB: the original building dates back to Norman times, but we have no information on the ancient font of that church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.921, -1.25

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 55′ 15.6″ N, 1° 15′ 0″ W

UTM: 30U 614923 5976151

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-10-02 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007