Castle Eden / Joden / Yew Dene / Yoden
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15769CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, E of Wingate, S of Easington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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A modern font contemporary with the date of the 1764 church is noted in Mackenzie (1834): "the font, the bason of which is oval, is of beautiful marble". [NB: the chapel that existed here before the building of the 18th-century church, and was in ruins by that time, is said to have dated to the 11th or 12th century, but we have no information of a font in it].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 606242 6066367
REFERENCES
- Mackenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham: comprehending the various subjects of natural, civil, and ecclesiastical geography, agriculture, mines, manufactures […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1834, vol. 2: 404