Wensley No. 2 / Vensela / Wandesleye / Wanslawe / Wendeslay / Wendreslaga / Wensele / Wenslagh / Wencelagh / Wenslaw / Wencelaw / Wentreslage / Wynselawe

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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

with semi-circles on the outer sides and a ball (?) in its centre
Scene Description: with semi-circles on the outer sides and a ball (?) in its centre
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design element - motifs - floral? / sun?

[cf. Inscription Area and Font notes]
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design element - motifs - geometric

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design element - motifs - geometric

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design element - motifs - moulding

several on the pedestal base
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inscription

the letters "G S" [or "C S"] to the sides of the blank shield
Scene Description: the letters "G S" [or "C S"] to the sides of the blank shield
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inscription

the inscription runs over three sides of the basin; note the different style and size in the lettering: sides 1(left) and 3(right) appear to be matched, but the lettering on side 2(centre) is quite different
Scene Description: the inscription runs over three sides of the basin; note the different style and size in the lettering: sides 1(left) and 3(right) appear to be matched, but the lettering on side 2(centre) is quite different
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inscription - date

the inscription runs over three sides of the basin; note the different style and size in the lettering: sides 1(left) and 3(right) appear to be matched, but the lettering on side 2(centre) is quite different
Scene Description: the inscription runs over three sides of the basin; note the different style and size in the lettering: sides 1(left) and 3(right) appear to be matched, but the lettering on side 2(centre) is quite different
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symbol - shield - blank

with the initials "G S" [or "C S"] on the lower sides [cf. Font notes and InscriptionNotes]
Scene Description: with the initials "G S" [or "C S"] on the lower sides [cf. Font notes and InscriptionNotes]
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symbol - star? - 4

one at each angle of the panel [cf. Inscription and Font notes]
Scene Description: one at each angle of the panel [cf. Inscription and Font notes]
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view of basin

a basin of a later font [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: a basin of a later font [cf. Font notes]
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view of basin

a basin of a later font [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: a basin of a later font [cf. Font notes]
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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of font

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view of font

The three fonts: on the left the 16th/17th-century one in use -- to its right, a later basin, now disused -- against the right wall is a basin fragment of what may have been the original early-medieval (?) church
Scene Description: The three fonts: on the left the 16th/17th-century one in use -- to its right, a later basin, now disused -- against the right wall is a basin fragment of what may have been the original early-medieval (?) church
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view of font

Two of the three fonts: on the right the 16th/17th-century one in use -- to its left, a later basin, now disused
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view of font

the 16th/17th-century font
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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01961WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Low Ln, Wensley, Leyburn DL8 4HX, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A684, on the N bank of the Ure river, in Wensleydale, 2.5 km W of Leyburn, 32 km WNW of Ripon up the A6108
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan -- formerly in Richmondshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1500? / ca. 1662?
Century and Period: 15th - 17th century, Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on, and photographs of church and font.
Church Notes: Noted in Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890) [2007 transcription by Colin Hinson in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Wensley/Wensley90.html [accessed 4 September 2007]: "The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, dates from the reign of Henry III.; but there is reason to believe that Wensley had its church in Saxon times, and that the rudely sculptured stone, bearing the name of DONFRID, now preserved in the vestry, is a relic of that structure. The nave appears to have been restored in the Tudor period, probably in the reign of Henry VII. The tower was repaired and modernised in the early part of last century."
Font Notes:
Cox-Harvey (1907): "Wensley is an instance of a font (c. 1500) being ejected by the Puritans, and replaced in 1662, when that date and an inscription was added." The font is octagonal all over; the basin sides have floral motifs, and one of the sides bears an inscription with the date 1662 and some letters; the chamfer is plain as are the pedestal of the base and lower base, except for a few mouldings. Bond (1908), however, describes it as one of several "pseudo-Gothic fonts of the Restoration", and states that "hanging would not have been good enough for those who wrought the fonts at Tuxford [...] and Bottesford [...], or that of Wensley [...], to which the churchwardens in proud satisfaction affixed their initials". Morris (1931) writes: "Restoration font, dated 1662, and inscribed, 'Church Ma ('a' inverted) sters looke to your chargeis'. The letters are badly cut, and one panel is in relief -- the other merely incised." In Betjeman (1958) as "1662 font and cover", without a question. Pevsner (1985 c.1966) notes: "Font. 1662., with the familiar elementary motifs and initials -- Font Cover. Probably of the same date. Ogee-shaped, with a pineapple at the top." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE0920789535] notes: "Church. C13, C14, C15, and 1719. [...] Octagonal font dated 1662, with contemporary wooden cover with pineapple finial."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.3014, -1.86
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 18′ 5.04″ N, 1° 51′ 36″ W
UTM: 30U 574184 6017656

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters (English) and numbers
Inscription Notes: 1.- Cox & Harvey give partial transcription. According to Bond, the letters are the initials of the churchwardens [NB: neither Cox & Harvey nor Bond transcribe the initials; they were transcribed here from Bond's and Pevsner's illustrations, and from our photographs]. [NB: the lettering changes stylistically and in size from one panel to the next, and that it may have been the result of several hands at different times] -- 2.- on either side of a blank (?) shield
Inscription Location: on one of the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: 1.- "CHVRC / H-MAS / TERS-LOOKE / TO YOVR-C / HARGERS / I P [J?] C L / 1662" 2.- "G [or C?] S"
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); Bond (1985 c1908: 269 and ill. on p. 266); Morris (1931: 397); Pevsner (1985 c1966: fig. 27b)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1662 -- Restoration
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966