Byrness / Bereness/ Burness
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Byrness Church, Northumberland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Dunford, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 2 June 2005 by Dave.Dunford [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ByrnessChurch.JPG] [accessed 4 August 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northernvicar, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2015 in Northernvicar's Blog [https://www.northernvicar.co.uk/2015/07/24/byrness-st-francis-of-assisi/] [accessed 4 August 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15861BYR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Francis
Church Patron Saints: St. Francis
Church Location: Byrness Village, Newcastle upon Tyne NE19 1TR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1830 520212
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located off the A68, 2 km E of the Catcleugh reservoir, 20 km WNW of Elsdon, 20 km N of Bellingham, about 70 km NW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the baptistery [tower?] arch
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century [lower base only] [composite font?], Baroque [composite]
Church Notes: prsent church 1793; re-built 1884
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry found for Byrness in the Domesdat survey. Wilson (1870) notes this church as the smallest in the archdeaconry, despite which, "until recently, it performed the double duty of church and school […] The font, corresponding with the miniature and mean characteristics of the place, is of an egg-cup form." The Northumberland Parks Authority website [http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/byrnessdescriptionofchurchpfryder] [accessed 19 January 2010] cites a description of the church by P. F. Ryder: "The font, which stands beneath the baptistery arch, is a small octagonal one; the lower part of the shaft and its moulded base appear of some antiquity (17th century?) but the upper parts are more recent." The font is noted "We have a nice font, a memorial to a previous Vicar " and illustrated in the Northernvicars Blog [https://www.northernvicar.co.uk/2015/07/24/byrness-st-francis-of-assisi/] [accessed 4 August 2022], and it is indeed a composite object: the top half is obviously new or totally re-finished, while the lower half, stem and lower base, are older.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
55.31456,
-2.3627
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
55° 18′ 52.42″ N,
2° 21′ 45.72″ W
UTM: 30U 540447 6129981
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal base, conical body and turned finial; modern
REFERENCES
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