Ugthorpe
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription field]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the upper part of the font visible behind the benches
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12958UGT
Church/Chapel: Christ Church
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A171, 13 km WNW of Whitby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1855-1856?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Whellan (1859) writes that the church was built between 1855 and 1857 and that: ''the pulpit and font are of Caen stone finely carved -the font, which has a cover in the shape of an octagonal pyramid culminating in a cross, being the gift of the Ven. Archdeacon Churton.'' Bulmer's Directory of 1890 paraphrases Whellan. The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with a chamfered upper rim on which runs an inscription [cf. Inscription below]; on the sides of the basin are cusped trefoil panels, all blank except one that has the initials IHS in it; the angles of the basin are carved with bud (?) clusters; a moulding decorates the lower angle of the basin, and the underbowl is decorated with a row of ball-flower motif; the octagonal stem has thin mouldings at top and bottom, and the lower base, also octagonal, is moulded. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with carved sides and metal handle; probably contemporary with the font. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, Caen stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: partial transcrition from photographs
Inscription Location: 1. around the chamfer of the upper rim
2. in one of the motifs of the panels on the basin side
Inscription Text: 1. "[…] the remission of sins. JAC"
2. "IHS"
Inscription Source: ImagesArea
LID INFORMATION
Date: mid-19th century ?
Material:
wood,
REFERENCES
Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890
Whellan & Co., T., History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire, embracing a […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1859
