Norton-on-Derwent / Norton nr. Malton / Norton / Nortone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: forming frames for the sides of the basin

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the lead-lined interior with a central drain

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - looking west

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23017NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [medieval dedication to All Saints]

Church Location: Langton Rd, Norton, Malton YO17 9AE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1653 699222

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off the B1248, S of the A64, S of Pickering, on the S banks of the Derwent river, NE of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Scard [in Domesday] / Union of Malton / Wapentake of Buckrose / East Riding of York

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [altered font], Norman[altered]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Norton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7971/norton/], one of which reports a church in it. Noted in Leonard Stanley Rivett's A History of and Guide to St. Peter's Church, Norton - Juxta - Malton, Yorkshire (Norton: [The Church], 1964). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE7942771029] notes: "Church. 1889-91. [...] Cll square font with blind arcading on a cylindrical pedestal with roll moulded foot." The font here is noted and illustrated by Rita Wood in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3005] [accessed 27 November 2020]: "There is a modern square plinth. On this is: a square chamfered base, a heavy torus; a plain cylinder or column less high than wide; another heavy torus, and a larger one. On this stem is a square font. The four faces each have two blank arches, crisply but shallowly cut in two levels with capitals having a hollow chamfer and the bases shown as two rectangular steps. The angles of the block have a rounded moulding; the top and bottom of the sides have a plain band with a medial quirk - an accurate straight line. The top surface is plain with a circular bowl, rebated and lead-lined. From the damage to parts of the supporting structure of the font, and from its similar colour of stone to the bowl, it might be supposed that the whole item, above the modern square plinth, was given by Mrs Wightman in 1894. Similar arcading is cut in a less measured manner on a cylindrical font at East Ayton (YN), and other places." The entry for this church in Explore Churches [www.explorechurches.org/church/st-peter-norton-derwent] [accessed 28 November 2020] notes: "The stone font is a massive and impressive piece, probably 12th century, but because of some damage is mounted on a modern base. It is known to be the font of the medieval church, thrown out in 1814 but kept by someone as a garden ornament. It was returned to St Peters in 1894."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 644852 6000480

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: 2?

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lined

Diameter (inside rim): 34 cm*

Basin Depth: 12 cm*

Basin Total Height: 39.4 cm*

Height of Base: 45.2 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 51 x 51 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3005] [accessed 27 November 2020]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle