Castle Eden / Joden / Yew Dene / Yoden

INFORMATION

FontID: 15769CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, E of Wingate, S of Easington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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