Scruton / Scuruetone / Scurveton / Scurvetone

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "The stone receptacle may have been a tub font in the original Norman church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 October 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2133201] [accessed 26 November 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Radegund's Church. Outside of the church a Georgian font stands near the south porch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2133009] [accessed 26 November 2019]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The south door [i.e. porch] of the church. The stone receptacle may have been a tub font in the original Norman church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2010
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Heaton, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 February 2017 by Chris Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5289492] [accessed 26 November 2019]
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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern -Victorian- font in the context of the tower space
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2133019] [accessed 26 November 2019]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 22449SCR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Radegund
Font Location in Church: Outside, by the S porch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Radegund [aka Radegunda, Radegunde]
Church Address: Scruton, Northallerton DL7 0QS, UK -- Tel.: +44 1609 773346
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A684, E of the A1(M), 4 km W of Ainderby Steeple, 7 km W of Northallerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan -- formerly Richmondshire
Additional Comments: disused font? (the one from the 12thC(?) church here stands outside by the south portal); another font, perhaps Georgian, stands by the south porch
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Scruton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3092/scruton/] [accessed 26 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "At the drastic 'restoration' in 1865, which was practically a rebuilding, the history of the church was almost entirely effaced [...]; so far as can now be discovered, the building was of 12th-century date with 13th-century aisles and chancel and 15th-century tower. [...] The font and the rest of the furniture are of recent date." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3003692552] notes: "Church. C12, early C13, C14 and C15. Restoration by G Fowler Jones 1865"; no font mentioned in it. There are actually three fonts in Scruton: 1)what appears to be a monolythic cylindrical basin with a broad flat moulding, located by the south portal; 2)a font consisting of a roughly-hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base, also disused, located by the south porch; 3)the font in use is Victoria, located inside the church, at the west end of the nave. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) does not mention a font in it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 594982 6020960
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.327642, -1.539447
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 19′ 39.51″ N, 1° 32′ 22.01″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.