Scrayingham / Escringham / Screngham

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1295421] notes: "Parish church with early Anglo-Saxon origins, surviving later Anglo-Saxon features, Norman and C14 fabric, restored and partially rebuilt in 1853 [...] the church contains considerable amounts of medieval and earlier fabric, including features that are identifiable as Pre-Conquest and possible dating to as early as the C7-C8, and certainly to the later Anglo-Saxon period [...] stone font at the west end".

Scene Description: The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1295421] notes: "Parish church with early Anglo-Saxon origins, surviving later Anglo-Saxon features, Norman and C14 fabric, restored and partially rebuilt in 1853 [...] the church contains considerable amounts of medieval and earlier fabric, including features that are identifiable as Pre-Conquest and possible dating to as early as the C7-C8, and certainly to the later Anglo-Saxon period [...] stone font at the west end".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2020 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6572073] [accessed 29 November 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23020SCR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Scrayingham, York YO41 1JD, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located E of the A64, on the E bank of the Derwent river, 15 km NE of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Acklam / Wapentake of Buckrose, East Riding of Yorkshire

Century and Period: 7th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest

Church Notes: chiefly a Victorian re-building of a 13thC church, with earlier parts (N wall), possibly Saxon and re-using Anglo-Roman materials: "Further evidence for an early date comes in part from a carved figure, probably of an early-Saxon Christ in Majesty, found by the Victorian restorers and now built into the vestry wall, which looks as if may be of early Saxon date." [http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/york/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8681000/8681265.stm [accessed 29 November 2020] -- there is detailed guide to the church in https://media.acny.uk/media/venues/page/attachment/2018/01/guidebook_2_column_version.pdf [accessed 29 November 2020]

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for Scrayingham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7360/scrayingham/] none of which mentions priest or church in it. The present font in this church is modern. The Ecclesiologist's report on new churches in vol. XX (1859: 135) mentions the church at Scrayingham and notes: "The font is at the extreme west end on the right hand as you enter by the single west door". A font "of Caen stone" in this church is mentioned in The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) and in Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire (1913). The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1295421] notes: "Parish church with early Anglo-Saxon origins, surviving later Anglo-Saxon features, Norman and C14 fabric, restored and partially rebuilt in 1853 [...] the church contains considerable amounts of medieval and earlier fabric, including features that are identifiable as Pre-Conquest and possible dating to as early as the C7-C8, and certainly to the later Anglo-Saxon period [...] stone font at the west end".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.03453, -0.8829

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 2′ 4.31″ N, 0° 52′ 58.44″ W

UTM: 30U 638650 5989437