Askham Richard / Ascam / Ascham / Little Askham / West Askham

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13914ASK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: St Mary Jacksons Walk, Main Street, Askham Richard, Askham Richard, North Yorkshire, YO23 3PT
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located N of the A64, E of Askham Bryan, 11 km WSW of York, and now in its unitary authoeity
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Ainsty -- formerly West Riding of York
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photograph of this church
Church Notes: church here late-11thC? restored late-19thC
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Askham Richard [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE5348/askham-richard/] [accessed 27 July 2014] , but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's visit of 31 January 1871 (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl enclosed in woodwork." St. Mary's is noted in the CRSBI [http://crsbi.cch.kcl.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-yw-askri.html] [accessed 27 July 2014] as being a 12th-century building before its 19th-century renovation, but we have no information on the original font of that church -- the present font appears modern]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.929872, -1.186695
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 55′ 47.54″ N, 1° 11′ 12.1″ W
UTM: 30U 619055 5977242

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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