Holme-on-Spalding Moor / Holme / Holme upon Spalding Moor

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2023 by Colin Hinson

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the slightly convex external sides of the basin can be appreciated here

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2023 by Colin Hinson

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2014 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3974378] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2023 by Colin Hinson

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2023 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail and download of 26 April 2023)

INFORMATION

FontID: 19367HOL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Holme-on-Spalding Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO43 4EE. United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off the A613-A614 confluence, 8 km SW of Market Weighton, 14 km NE of Howden, 32 km SE of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Weighton [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: church originally 13thC; expanded 15th and 18thC; restored early-20thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Holme in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8238/holme-upon-spalding-moor/] [accessed 20 July 2014], and it reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE8209538942] notes: "Church. C13 nave and aisles, C15 upper section of tower and clerestory, C18 porch. Restored by Temple Moore 1906-11", but does not mention its font. The font here is dated 14th-century in Freeman Crosby [http://www.fcrosby.com/genealogy/church_booklet/slide2.htm] [accessed 26 April 2023]. The font consists of a plain octagonal with slightly concave sides, raised on an octagonal pedestal, equally plain, and an octagonal lower base decorated with graded mouldings. The whole font appears to have been white-washed recently [cf. ImagesArea]. Octagonal wooden cover with long handle; no finial; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.8402, -0.7538

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 50′ 25.13″ N, 0° 45′ 11.39″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes