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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14020YOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Christ Church [aka Holy Trinity] [demolished in 1937]

Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]

Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ

Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Before its demolition in 1937 this church was located on King's Square

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Additional Comments: disappeared font

Font Notes: Click to view

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, p. 456