Askham Bryan / Ascam / Ascha / East Askham / Great Askham
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
Scene Description: the font and cover by the entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13913ASK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [aka St. Lawrence's / St. Michael's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Main Street, Askham Bryan, York, YO23 3QU
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A64, 5 km NE of Tadcaster, 8 km SW of York, and now part of its unitary authority
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire -- Hundred of Ainsty
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of wwwyorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
There is an entry for Askham Bryan [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE5548/askham-bryan/] [accessed 27 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Allen (1851) reports the presence in this church of "a gallery at the west end, and beneath it the font, which is circular." Noted in Glynne's visit of 31 January 1871 (in Butler, 2007): "The font [is] of doubtful character." The present baptismal font at St. Nicholas' is not the original Norman font, nor is it a re-tooling of the old one, but a modern font, perhaps 19th-century. [NB: St. Nicholas is a 12th-century church described in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/askbr/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2008]; we have no information on the original font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.928806,
-1.162348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 55′ 43.7″ N,
1° 9′ 44.45″ W
UTM: 30U 620656 5977165
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: four arches support a central pivot and finial, on a round platform
REFERENCES
Allen, Thomas, A new and complete history of the County of York […] illustrated by a series of views […] by N. Whittock, London: Published by L. T. Hinton, 1851
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-10-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
