York No. 6 / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík

INFORMATION

FontID: 14020YOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Christ Church [aka Holy Trinity] [demolished in 1937]
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Before its demolition in 1937 this church was located on King's Square
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Noted in Glynne's July 1846 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a plain octagon." Butler (ibid.) informs that this church, also known as Holy Trinity, on King's Square, "was demolished in 1937".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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