Harwood Dale

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: New St. Margaret's [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina Pickup [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/PhotoFrames/NRY/HarwoodDaleNewStMargaret.html] [accessed 1 July 2008]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Old St. Margaret's [cf. Font notes]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: New St. Margaret's: the font and cover at the back, under the tower

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13576HAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [new] of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 11 km NW of Scarborough

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, under the tower

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Whellan (1859) reported ''an ancient font in the Churchyard'' of the Chapel at Ease dedicated to St. Margaret at Harewood [aka Harwood] Dale. The baptismal font that is now [June 2008] in St. Margaret's consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a blind round arcade, raised on a short wooden stem; the inner well is not visible and the leaf lining appaers too shallow to correspond to this type of font. There does not seem to be an available explanation for the presence of a Norman (?) font in this church; even the original church, now abandoned and in ruins, dates from the 17th century. Or, is this perhaps the original font of the Norman church at Hackness? [cf. Index entry]. Glynne had reported such a font "of circular form and plain, supported on a cylindrical shaft" in his August 1827 visit to Hackness, but this font must have been already moved to the churchyard at Harwood Dale by Whellan's time in 1859. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with ball finial; 17th-century? [cf. Index entry for Hackness]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak

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

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