Low Bentham / Lower Bentham
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: EXT digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1246760] [accessed 26 March 2012]
FONT digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1246793] [accessed 26 March 2012]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1246760] [accessed 26 March 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2008 by Colin Hinson
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2008 by Colin Hinson
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view of font - drawing
Scene Description: ***NOT the font from Low Bentham
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Image Source: detail of an original design by Lethaby in the Museum and Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design
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view of font - drawing - elevation
Scene Description: ***NOT the font from Low Bentham
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Image Source: detail of an original design by Lethaby in the Museum and Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design
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view of font - plan, elevation and section
Scene Description: ***NOT the font from Low Bentham
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Image Source: original design by Lethaby in the Museum and Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the earlier font? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1246793] [accessed 26 March 2012]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [Central Saint Martins College of Art Design?. 2006?]
Image Source: original design by Lethaby in the Museum and Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design
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view of font cover - detail
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Image Source: B&W detail of an original design by Lethaby in the Museum and Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design
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view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [Central Saint Martins College of Art Design?. 2006?]
Image Source: original design by Lethaby in the Museum and Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01075BEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Wennington Rd, Low Bentham, North Yorkshire, LA2 7DD
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the B6480, 6 km SW of Ingleton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: formerly West Riding of Yorkshire; earlier in Richmondshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this church
No individual entry found for Low / Lower Bentham in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in Whitaker (1823) mentions the present [ca. 1823] church as being from about the time of Henry VII [i.e., 1485-1509] and having retained "not a vestige of the original [Saxon] fabric"; it mentions no font in it. Cram (1914) reports a cylindrical font with foliage ornamentation and an interesting cover here [NB: Cram gives the name as 'Bentham' and the county as the East R. of Yorkshire]. Mee (1941) notes: "The massive alabaster font has a remarkable canopied cover, carved with roses and honeysuckle and adorned with 12 pinnacles, which are crowned with golden pomegranates." [NB: on 29 October 1991 Christie's London sold a lot (#39) which included a William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931) drawing of a design for "the font-cover at Bentham church" -- there is also a design for a font Lethaby presented to a competition, but we have no evidence that the project was ever executed]. NB: a photograph claiming to be taken in the interior of this church in April 2009 shows the fancy cover reported by the above sources; however, the font under this cover is a tub-shaped basin of ancient design, perhaps 11th- or 12th-century; it is raised on a modern base and plinth. Was this font recovered recently and replaced the modern font? -- to be completed
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.1177,
-2.5452
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 7′ 3.72″ N,
2° 32′ 42.72″ W
UTM: 30U 529728 5996713
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1891?
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cram, Ralph A., Church Building: a Study of the Principles of Architecture in their Relation to the Church, Boston, MA: Small, Maynard & Co., 1914
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823