Bamburgh / Bamborough / Bambrough / Bebbanburgh / Din Guaroy

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B01: symbol - cross - treflée or fleuronnée

on the modern font
Scene Description: on the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2007 by Tina Manthorpe [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/1024987389/] [accessed 22 January 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover

the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ridgwell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ridgwell [http://www.markridgwell.co.uk] [accessed 15 January 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15847BAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Aidan? / Castle chapel?
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Aidan%27s_Church,_Bamburgh
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Aidan [aka Aedan]
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Belford, near Budle Bay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Mackenzie (1825) writes of the finding the chapel of 'Bambrough' Castle in the summer of the year 1773; in the buried chapel, "The font, richly carved, is also remaining, and is now preserved amongst the curiosities in the keep" [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of this font]. The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes: "The church is dedicated to St. Aidan, and stands in the village, about half a mile from the ruins of the ancient one erected by King Oswald in the castle", but does not mention a font [NB: this Oswald would be King Oswald (604-642), king of Northumbria]. Wilson (1870) mentions a font at the west end of the south aisle, but does not give any details of it. A modern font is illustrated in Mark Ridgwell's website [http://www.markridgwell.co.uk] [accessed 15 January 2010]; it consists of an octagonal basin that has four concave sides decorated with large symbols (foliated cross, shield in a quatrefoil, etc.) alternating with four sides that are straight and plain; there is an inscription on the upper rim chamfer; underbowl chamfer with mouldings and floral motifs; square stem and lower base; octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover is octagonal, a low pyramid with a ribbed tiny top and an urn finial; also modern. [NB: not clear whether or not this font is the one noted in Wilson ca. 1870; we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.bpears.org.uk/genuki/NBL/Bamburgh/Gaz1868.html [accessed 15 January 2010]]
  • MacKenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the County of Northumberland, and of those parts of the County of Durham situated north of the river Tyne, with Berwick upon Tweed and […], Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent […], 1825, vol. 1: 404
  • Wilson, Frederick Richard, An architectural survey of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the County of Northumberland, containing plans and views […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and photo-lithographed by M. and M. W. Lambert, 1870, p. 60