Kirk Smeaton / Smedetone
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view of font and cover
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - intersecting arches
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5786056] [accessed 14 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01980SME
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Main Street, Kirk Smeaton, Pontefract WF8 3LB, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, SE of Pontefract
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgodcross -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Kirk and Little Smeaton] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/kirk-and-little-smeaton/] [accessed 14 November 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Bond (1908) reports a baptismal font with the "shape of an inverted bucket" at Smeaton, Yorkshire. Noted in Morris (1932): "Large, circular Trans[itional] font, with intersecting arcade." In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Norman, cylindrical, with intersected arches." The Parish of St. Peter's web site [www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/stpeter/index.htm] includes 'A history of St. Peter's Church, Kirk Smeaton' by Harry Robinson [s.d.], with a note on the font and an illustration: "The font is a good example of the large cylindrical 12th century fonts, with arcades cut upon it. The top is recent work. The lid was made in 1926 by Mr Ernest Trippett, in oak, and the ironwork, with a brass cross was made by Mr. J.E. Cunnington." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5201116638] notes: "Church. C12, C13, C14 and C15, heavily restored in 1864. [...] Norman tub font decorated with intersecting arches on cylindrical shaft." Noted in Harman & Pevsner (2017) as a Norman font decorated with intersecting arches. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) reports a "12thc chancel arch of about 1160, also a font which is probably a little earlier".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 618060 5945474
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.6447, -1.214
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 38′ 40.92″ N, 1° 12′ 50.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1926
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: "The lid was made in 1926 by Mr Ernest Trippett, in oak, and the ironwork, with a brass cross was made by Mr. J.E. Cunnington." [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 37
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 376
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 217
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 293
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 293