Basedale Priory / Baysdale

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22352BAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Cistercian Priory Church
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Notes: priory church of the Cistercian nunnery founded mid-12thC
Church Address: Westerdale
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared abbey is located between Battersby (WNW) and Westerdale (ESE), 13 km E of the A172 and Stokesley, 12 km SE of Middlesbrough
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC(?) priory church here)
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for this Sawley in the Domesday survey. The entry for the Cistercian nunnery here in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "Basedale nunnery was situated about 8 miles from the parish church of Stokesley [...] Joan Fletcher [i.e., penultimate prioress] was alive at the Suppression, [...] when there were, including her, eleven nuns in the house, which is described as 'Prioratus monasterii de Basedale ordinis Sancti Bernardi Cisterciensis.'" The entry for this priory in Historic England [www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=28027] [accessed 19 September 2019] notes: "No evidence of archaeological survival remains of the priory."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626783 6035557
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.451848, -1.044482
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 27′ 6.65″ N, 1° 2′ 40.13″ W