Sproxton nr. Helmsley
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the northwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16740SPR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Elizabethan
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Chad
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km S of Helmsley, near Oswaldkirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Modern baptismal font consisting of a moulded hexagonal basin of black marble, raised on a hexagonal pedestal base of white limestone (?) and a black marble (?) lower base of the same shape. The English Church Architecture web site [http://english-church-architecture.net/north%20yorkshire/sproxton/sproxton.htm] [accessed 7 October 2011] notes: "This tiny building is reputed to have an Elizabethan origin, much of the fabric having been moved to this spot from the chapel of West Newton Grange, one and a half miles to the southeast, in 1879. [...] The architects of the reconstruction were George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-97) and Temple Moore (1856-1920)".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the added photographs of this church and modern font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 626507 6010475
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.226622, -1.059388
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 13′ 35.84″ N, 1° 3′ 33.8″ W