Danby Wiske / Danby-upon-Wiske / Danebi

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font
view of font - east side
view of font in context - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman Font, Danby Wiske Parish Church. "This simple but massive stone font is one of a very few in this area to survive from early times. Such symbols of the Roman Church were a popular target for destruction by extremists during both the Reformation and Cromwell's Protectorate. This font must have been carefully hidden away until the threat from iconoclasts had abated"." [NB: the quoted text in the caption may be from a local source].
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2012 by David Rogers [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2968875] [accessed 18 November 2019]
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view of font in context - southeast side
INFORMATION
FontID: 17119DAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Danby Wiske Parish Church
Church Location: Mountstrall Ln, Danby Wiske, Northallerton DL7 0LY, UK -- Tel.: +44 113 200 0540
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located between the village of Streetlam (W) and the A167 (E), 6 km NNW of Northallerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Danby [Wiske] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3398/danby-wiske/] [accessed 18 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font is noted and illustrated in Whitaker (1823). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The parish church of DANBY WISKE (invocation unknown) [...] The south door and the lower part of the south wall date from about the year 1100. The alterations made early in the 14th century, when the chancel was rebuilt and a north aisle added to the nave, gave the church very much the same plan that it has to day. The tower, however, was not added till 200 years later"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3380898336] notes: "Church. C12 south wall and doorway, C14 chancel and north aisle, later C15 tower and C18 porch"; no font mentioned in it. Large tub-shaped basin decorated with a flat moulding at the upper rim, and a thick roll moulding on the underbowl; raised of a plain cylindrical pedestal base, a circular lower base and an octagonal plinth; the whole of the base is probably of a later date, the stem appears modern. Flat and round wooden cover; plain and modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.3804, -1.48
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 22′ 49.44″ N, 1° 28′ 48″ W
UTM: 30U 598721 6026911
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823