Hutton Conyers / Hoton Coigners / Hoton Conyers / Hotone / Hotune

INFORMATION

FontID: 22451HOT
Church/Chapel: Chapel [disappeared 16thC?]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are for the present village] Hutton Conyers, Ripon, HG4 5LY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A61, E of the curving Ure river, 2 km NE of Ripon
Historical Region: Hundred of Hallikeld
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
There are two multiple-place entries for Hutton [Conyers] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3273/hutton-conyers/] [accessed 27 November 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish [formerly extra-parochial] in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "In the early 13th century the chapter of Ripon granted to Roger de Conyers and his son Robert the right of having a chapel in Hutton Conyers, and a chaplain serving there, [...] subject to the parochial rights of the chapter. [...] The object for which it existed was stated in 1546 to be 'to have mass, divine service and sacraments ministered in the said church at such times as the inhabitants of the same town cannot come to the parish church for the influence of the water, when the water here is big.' [...] After the confiscation of its endowment the chapel seems to have fallen into disuse, and since the 16th century the inhabitants of Hutton Conyers have had no nearer church than Ripon." The The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal (vol. 2, 1873:186) shows the dedication of the chapel here as St. John the Baptist. Binski [https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003581500050277] [accessed 27 November 2019] describes the decorated charter: "The text Edwardus Dei gratia Rex (etc) in charter handopens with a large historiated initial E (50 by 26mm) containing the figure of St John the Baptist, the patron of the chapel at Hutton Conyers", and shows an illustration [fig. 2] of the historiated E which contains the image of the saint.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 597890 6001794

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.