Welburn / Welburn-on-Derwent / Wellebrvne / Wellebrune
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14475WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Welburn, York YO60 7EG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1653 619181
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A64, 2 km ENE of Bulmer, 9 km SW of Malton
Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Welburn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7168/welburn/] [accessed 29 January 2025] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with deeply-carved panels with figures and symbols (cross, shield, etc.) on the sides; figures and foliage on the underbowl chamfer; deeply-carved arches or windows on the stem, and moulded lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat. The whole thing appears Victorian. [NB: Burton (1999) mentions a church in Welburn in the 12th century, but we have no information on either that church or an ealier font of that church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this modern font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 637364 5997011
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1029, -0.8991
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 6′ 10.44″ N, 0° 53′ 56.76″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Burton, Janet E., The Monastic order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 264