Little Driffield / Drifelt

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BU01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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view of basin - interior

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

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view of church interior - looking west

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

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view of font

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

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover is on the ground, behind the font, to the right

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

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view of font and cover in context

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13087DRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [cf. FontNotes]

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 1.5 km NW of Great Driffield

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, in the centre

Century and Period: 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

Church Notes: Colin Hinson notes on the dedication of this church: [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Greatdriffield/LittleDriffieldHistory.html] [accessed 6 September 2007]: "A note with respect to the dedication of the church: There seems to be both confusion and changes involved with the dedication of the church. You will see above that Baines gives it as St. Peter (1823), and also Bulmer's 1892 gives it as St. Peter. I have a Penguin book of 1972 which also gives it as St. Peter. I am told that people who have worshipped in the church for 70 years have never known it as anything but St. Mary! There follows a short quote from A short history of St. Mary - Little Driffield in the Diocese of York by Dr. David Neave of Hull University:- "Throughout the centuries there has been some change in dedication, but no authorisation can be found. The earliest reference to dedication is to St Mary in a will of 1454. A further reference in Sharp's Mas c1700-1700 is likewise to St Mary, but thereafter the reference is to St Peter until the late 19th century, when the title St Mary is again used." [Colin Hinson, Jan 2001]"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Glynne's 11 August 1827 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "[in the west end of the nave] is a plain octagonal font ". The baptismal font consists of a plain octagonal basin and tall underbowl chamfer decorated with scalloped sides, all in one block; it is raised on a wider squat circular base and an irregular plinth; the upper block and the base are ill-matched and definitely from different periods, although the upper block could be Norman; the inside well of the basin is lead-lined and has a central drain-hole; there is a flat octagonal wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle; it appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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