Arden / Arden-with-Ardenside / Ardene

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22320ARD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Benedictine Priory Church of St. Andrew [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: Benedictine Nunnery founded ca. 1150; suppressed 1537
Church Address: coordinates and postal code are for Hawnby, York YO62 5QS, UK [cf. Directions(Geo) below]
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Arden was a township in the parish of Hawnby, located 13 km WNW of Hemsley, 15-20 km NE of Thirsk. No site remains known.
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of Birdforth -- Hundred of Yarlestre [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared priory church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Arden (Hall) [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5290/arden-hall/] [accessed 5 September 2019]; it reports a priest, but not a church in it, though there must have been one there [NB: the entry mentions Arden and five other places in it]. The entry for this Benedictine nunnery in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "About 1150, [...] Peter de Hoton founded the nunnery of St. Andrew at Arden [...] The commissioners supervised the priory on 8 May 1536, and it was suppressed on 25 August following." The [conventual] church is mentioned at least twice in episcopal visitation records referred to in the VCH entry. No remains of the buildings located but a present farm is believed to be where the original site was.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 619270 6018554
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.30093, -1.16711
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 18′ 3.35″ N, 1° 10′ 1.6″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.