Sessay No. 2 / Cessaye / Cezay / Little Sessay / Old Seysey / Seasey / Segege / Seysey / Sezai

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13588SES
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: Church Ln, Sessay, Thirsk YO7 3NA, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A19, 7-8 km SSE of Thirsk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Yarlestre
Additional Comments: disappeared stoup?
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Sessay [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4575/sessay/] [accessed 29 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) report that ''not far from Sessay is the site of a more ancient village, called Old Seysey'', in which there is a yard known locally as the 'Church yard' or 'Church farm', and ''it is supposed that the original Church of the parish'' stood in it; in that yard, ''what appears to be the ancient holy water stoupe [sic], is now used as a flower pot in the garden''. There is no mention of either church, yard or stoup in Pevsner (1966).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 611639 6003297
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1656, -1.29
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 9′ 56.16″ N, 1° 17′ 24″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • 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, p. 332 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-8wHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA8-PA893&lpg=RA8-PA893&dq=ebberston+church+font&source=web&ots=dasZyVodko&sig=lJUwMy-wZpIVTB8qWdeRzaah_cM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA330,M1] [accessed 6 July 2008]