Wheldrake / Coldrid
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
Scene Description: the ca. 1300 font, now disused
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Richard and Peta Miller in January 2009
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view of font
Scene Description: the ca. 1300 font, now disused
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 April 2022 by Colin Hinson
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view of font - detail
Scene Description: the IHS emblem on the side of the modern font
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font in use
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 April 2022 by Colin Hinson
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14016WHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Main St / Church Ln, Wheldrake, York YO19 6AA , UK
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, 11-12 km SE of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Pocklington
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Richard and Peta Miller for their photographs of these fonts, and to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of the church and for his help in documenting these fonts
Church Notes: [NB: the original Priory of Thicket (Benedictine nuns) was dissolved and its church demolished; the present priory is a Carmelite monastery of ca. 2000]
There is an entry for Wheldrake [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6844/wheldrake/] [accessed 9 September 2019]; it reports a church in it. There is no font mentioned in Glynne's 14 March 1825 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007), but Butler's (ibid.) added footnote reads: "The font is c. 1300". The Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 3, 1976) notes: "There was a church at Wheldrake in 1086"; reporting on the changes made during a 19th-century renovation, it adds: "Other changes in 1873 included the removal of a west gallery and the provision of new seating, floors, and font". The same VCH source adds that: "An octagonal font of c. 1300 was restored to the church in 1974". Reported in the 'A Church Near You' site [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/wheldrake-st-helen/] [accessed 26 November 2008]: "The medieval (?1300) font was replaced by one of a slender Georgian style, which is now in the garden of the nursing home next door. For two hundred years the medieval font was a pump trough for a cottage in Main Street […] The Georgian font was removed and was replaced by the present one." In Pevsner & Neave (1995): "Font. Octagonal of c. 1300." On-site notes: the font being used at present [January 2009] is a of the octagonal mounted type, modern; one (?) of the sides of the basin bears the IHS emblem; the lower base is moulded and octagonal. The plinth is quadrangular, the top decorated with tiles. Kept in a corner of the nave is the old octagonal tub; it has a rounded inner well and is much damaged at the top sides. It is now disused [NB: we have no up-to-date information on the Georgian font reported earlier in the churchyard]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.8965,
-0.962453
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 53′ 47.4″ N,
0° 57′ 44.83″ W
UTM: 30U 633883 5973930
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-09-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-09-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995
