Featherstone / North Featherstone / Ferestane

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view of church exterior - south view

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01166FEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: churches reported here 1086; present church is late-medieval; restored 1880s
Church Address: North Cl, Featherstone, Pontefract WF7 6BQ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1977 780225
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A645, 3 km SW of Pontefract, 10 km E of Wakefield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgodcross -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: Disappeared font(s)? (from the Domesday-time church(es) here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Featherstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4222/featherstone/] [accessed 16 October 2018]; it reports two priests and two churches in it. Glynne's visit 13 May 1868 (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has a plain octagonal bowl, on an octagonal stem buttressed on alternate sides. On alternate faces of the bowl are heraldic shields and inscriptions, Johes de Baghull and Katerina uxor eius; one shield has the bugler, arms of Winn." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, the inscription on which [cf. Inscription area] probably gives the names of the donors. Morris (1932) notes it as heraldic font with an inscription: "octagonal font, which exhibits on its various faces; (a) ermine a saltire; (b) a plain cross; (c) a quarterly (i) and (iv) quarterly, (i) and (iv) three inciseed fusils, (ii) and (iii) a very rudely scratched spread eagle, (ii) and (iii) a saltire; (d) plain; (e) three heads erased in pale impaling barry of eight, on the second bas (incised) two annulets, on the sixth, one. Above: + Baghill; (f) plain; (g) Ioh[ann]es de Baghill + Katerina uxsor (sic) eius; (h) plain." Noted in Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields and an inscription commemorating Johannes Baghill and his wife." Ryder (1993) describes the stone of the font as "magnesian limestone", repeats the heraldic and inscription details of earlier writers, and adds "the font is said to have been brought here from Pontefract in the Civil War." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4218522090] [accessed 7 November 2018] notes: "Church. Late medieval (probably C15), restored in late C19. [...] C15 font on a pedestal, octagonal with raised carved shields and incised Latin script on the cardinal sides."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 608154 5950634
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.6932, -1.362
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 41′ 35.52″ N, 1° 21′ 43.2″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "JOH[ann]E'S DE BAGHILL ET KATERINA UXOR EJUS"
Inscription Notes: [Probably the names of the donors]
Inscription Source: Cox (1907: 181) -- also, cf. FontNotes

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 181
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 176
  • Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 245
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 187
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 198
  • Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 116