Marton nr. Hull / Meretone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22419MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Leonard [demolished ca. 1740]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Notes: recorded ca. 1240 the chapel was demolished ca. 1740
Church Address: Kirk Garth [aka Kirjgarth], Marton, Hull HU11 5DA, UK
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared chapel, "Kirk Garth" [aka Kirkgarth], is off (E) the A165, 12-14 km NE of Hull
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-13thC chapel here)
Font Notes:
There are two multiple-place entries for this Marton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1839/marton/] [accessed 30 October 2019], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this hamlet in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "Marton chapel was recorded from c. 1240 [...] and its dedication to St. Leonard in 1474 [...] The chapel was served until the end of the 16th century, [...] but by 1650 the building was in disrepair [...] and by the late 17th century the Marton tithes had been annexed to Swine vicarage, presumably because of the abandonment of the cure at Marton. [...] The remains of the chapel were demolished c. 1740 and its yard was later called Kirk Garth."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 683739 5968902
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.836101, -0.207559
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 50′ 9.97″ N, 0° 12′ 27.21″ W

REFERENCES

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