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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the neo-Norman font of the 1840s

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 December 2014 by Colin Hinson

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St. John the Evangelist, Sewerby. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1846-48. A Neo-Norman church, a style Scott did not usually work in but designed under pressure from the patron Yarburgh Greame"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2018 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5749339] [accessed 18 December 2020]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the neo-Norman font of the 1840s

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 December 2014 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (download of 17 December 2020)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the neo-Norman font in the 1840s church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 December 2014 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (download of 17 December 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23051SEW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evagelist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist

Church Location: 40 Sewerby Park Cl, Sewerby, Bridlington YO15 1EE, UK

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1255, now a NE suburb of Bridlington, about 2 km from its town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Hunthow

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

Date: ca. 1840?

Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for his photographs of the neo-Norman font here

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Sewerby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1968/sewerby/] [accessed 18 December 2020], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The listing entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1083693] notes: "The church was built in 1846-8 to designs by George Gilbert Scott with the consecration taking place on 27 April 1848 by Archbishop Musgrave. [...] The church is built in the Norman style [...] The font is neo-Norman and has a circular bowl with cable moulding and waterleaf ornament carved at the corners of the square base." It has an English inscription with the Matthew 19:14 phrase. [NB: we have been unable to locate information about an earlier church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.103602, -0.164991

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 6′ 12.97″ N, 0° 9′ 53.97″ W

UTM: 30U 685348 5998764

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English

Inscription Location: below the upper rim, all around

Inscription Text: [Matthew 19:14]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

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