Helperthorpe / Elpetorp

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the 19th-century font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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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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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the 19th-century font visible in the baptistery made beneath the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19th-century font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14480HEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1253, 2 km from Weaverthorpe, 13 km NNW of Driffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Toreshou -- formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on the church and for his photographs of this font.
The entry for Helperthorpe in Domesday (1086) includes a church in that locality. Noted in the National Gazetteer of 1868: "a carved stone font". Bulmer's Directory of 1892 reports that the church was re-built in 1874-1875, but does not mention a font, either old or new. The baptismal font now [April 2009] at St. Peter's must be the 1874 replacement: it consists of a roughly dylindrical basin with a floral motif in a medallion on the sides, raised on a clustered columnar base and a round plinth. The wooden cover is flat and round, probably of the same date. [NB: we have no information on the wherabouts of the old font of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 660573 5999684

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]