Ganton / Galmeton / Galmpton

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: note the patina on the stone, very different from the one on the sides of the font; also the old metal staple from the old cover; this is not a modern font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - west end

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the altered font [cf. Font notes]

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16750GAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire [formerly East Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located in the A64 (Malton to Filey road), 16 km SSW of Scarborough [Coordinates: 54° 11′ 4.74″ N, 0° 29′ 9.6″ W 54.18465, -0.486] [Diocese of York]

Historical Region: formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the added photographs of this church and font.

Church Notes: the National Gazetteer of 1868 and Sheahan & Whellan (1859) have the dedication of the church as St. Michael, but Bulmer's Directory of 1892 has St. Nicholas; Crockford's (1989-1990) has St. Nicholas as the patron saint of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The October 1966 listing of the Church of St. Nicholas, Ganton, in the British Listed Buildings database [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-329347-church-of-st-nicholas-ganton] [accessed 1 July 2010] reports a "Plain tub font" in this church. The baptismal font, as seen in April 2010, consists of a round moulded basin raised on a circular pedestal with mouldings towards the splaying lower base; the modern appearance of the font are deceiving, but they do indicate a modern re-cutting and re-tooling of most of its surfaces; whatever the original shape, the only way to tell its medieval pedigree is to look at the upper rim of the basin, which has been left more or less untouched. [NB: we have no information on when the changes were made, but they appear to be recent, rather than from te 1870s renovation of the church]. The font is not recorded in Pevsner & Neave (1995) who must have thought it modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted) [cf. FontNotes]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; date unknown