Gargrave / Geregraue
Results: 7 records
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Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 January 2023)
view of basin
Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 January 2023)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: mid-19thC church except for the early-16thC tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 January 2023)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 January 2023)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 January 2023)
view of church interior - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 January 2023)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00247GAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Late Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: present church chiefly mid-19thC except for late-Perpendicular (1521) tower
Church Address: 28 Church St, Gargrave, Skipton BD23 3NE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1756 749275
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A65, 6 km WNW of Skipton, 45-50 km NW of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Craven [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-Perpendicular church here)
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple entry that includes Gragrave [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD9353/gargrave/] [accessed 15 January 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD9319553911] notes: "Parish Church. West tower probably C16, rest 1852"; no font mentioned.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for bring this font to our attention, and for his photographs of this church and its Victorian font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 558676 5981802
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.981213, -2.105254
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 58′ 52.37″ N, 2° 6′ 18.91″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: type unknown