Whitby No. 4 / Witebi

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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Results: 5 records

view of basin

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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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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Whitby: Church of St.John the Evangelist"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dr Neil Clifton, 2010

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Dr Neil Clifton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1878173] [accessed 5 March 2021]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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

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view of font and cover in context

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12959WHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: 44-48 Baxtergate, Whitby, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A171, 2 blocks NW of the train station, on the W banks of the Esk river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Langbaurgh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin with eight columns that give the basin an octagonal shape, the panels decorated with deeply-carved plant motifs; raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a moulded lower base; on a two-step polygonal plinth. Flat and round wooden cover topped with a pineapple finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.485453, -0.616686
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 29′ 7.63″ N, 0° 37′ 0.07″ W
UTM: 30U 654387 6040150

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) (with columns)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with columns)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2020-01-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.