Overton nr. York / Ouertun / Ouretun

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22473OVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church St. Cuthbert [demolished 1969]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: Overton, York, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the A1237 [York Ring Rd], in the NW suburbs of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are three entries (one is multi-place) for this Overtone [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5555/overton/] [accessed 12 December 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it [cf. infra]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The church of St. Cuthbert at Overton was in the possession of the Abbots of St. Mary's, York, in 1291 [...] [it] was almost entirely rebuilt in 1855, but the old design appears to have been followed"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in the Borthwick Catalogue of the University of York [https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/church-of-england-overton-st-cuthbert-parish] [accessed 10 December 2022], however, notes: "The existence of a church at Overton was recorded in Domesday in the eleventh century. It was given by King William II to Abbey and Convent of St Mary’s, York. It was appropriated to them, and a vicarage ordained there, in 1301 [cf. supra]. The village of Overton also served as the principal country residence of the Abbots of St Mary’s [...] Overton parish church, which was dedicated to St Cuthbert, was closed in the 1960s and demolished in 1969. Today Overton is part of the parish of Shipton with Overton within the benefice of Skelton with Shipton and Newton on Ouse."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 620846 5984469

REFERENCES

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