Holmpton / Holmetone

INFORMATION

FontID: 13963HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 6 km ENE of Patrington
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Noted in Glynne's 2 April 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a circular bowl, on stem of like form." Butler's (ibid.) annotation of Gynne's notes informs that "the church had its character totally altered in 1874-5 by R. Beevers of Hull. No older features were retained." The National Monuments Record, English Heritage (IoE Number 166559) [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=166559] [accessed 4 November 2008] does not mention a font in this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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