Sykehouse
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Hogg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2015 by Graham Hogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4520711] [accessed 27 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21903SYK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Broad Ln, Sykehouse, Goole DN14 9BW, UK -- Tel.: 01405 785 294
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the M62, halfway between the A19 (W) and the M18 (W), 20-25 km NE of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Additional Comments: re-cycled font? (from elsewhere? or an earlier church here?)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Sykehouse in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6291516904] notes: "Church. Tower of 1721 otherwise 1869 by C. H. Fowler. [...] Small octagonal font of C15 date presumably from elsewhere." Noted in Harman & Pevsner (2017): "C15. Octagonal, with simple tracery to neck".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 628832 5945824
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.6453, -1.051
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 38′ 43.08″ N, 1° 3′ 3.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 653