Withernsea / Witfornes / Withersea
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
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Results: 4 records
view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Colin Hinson
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Colin Hinson
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the modern font in the south aisle
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Colin Hinson
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Colin Hinson
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14017WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [closed in 2014]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Queen St, Withernsea, Hull, HU19 2QA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A1033 [aka Queen St], 6-7 km NE of Patrington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [South Hundred]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
Church Notes: the nearby church of Rimswell St Mary's was at the time of writing [26 November 2008] up for sale, font and all: "A former parish church originally built in 1801 and substantially altered in 1885- available for alternative uses namely residential conversion to a single dwelling (subject to planning). The property is Grade 2 listed and retains many original features including bell tower, nave and chancell providing c. 1,680 sq ft (156.1 sq m) of accomodation. The property is surrounded by a grave yard part of which is being sold with the church making an overall plot size of c. 0.4 acres. Guide Price £150,000." [source: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/diocesesparishes/rcsale/rimswell.html [aacessed 26 November 2008]
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple-place entry for Withernsea [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA3427/withernsea/] [accessed 8 November 2019]; it mentions two priests in it but no church, though there must have been one(?) there. Glynne's 26 July 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) notes: "The font is new; the bowl has fair Perpendicular panelling." [NB: this church had been in ruins prior to the 1858-1859 restoration and its original Perpendicular font had probably disaappeared; the new font is likely from the said renovation]. The church is reported as "permanently closed [...] In 1987 the church became a grade II listed building, but after maintenance costs became too much the church was closed in 2014" in the See Around Britain site [https://seearoundbritain.com/venues/sarah-st-nicholas-church-withernsea] [accessed 8 November 2019]. The church was reported as being "for sale for £10K next to working graveyard" in a 18 May 2017 article in the BBC News [www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-39961352] [accessed 8 November 2019].
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007