Bradfield / Bradfield nr. Sheefield / High Bradfield

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Results: 7 records

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2007 By Star Atkinson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/342289] [accessed 12 Ocyober 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2010 by Gemma Longman [www.flickr.com/photos/14149688@N00/4471104312] [accedssed 12 October 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Mick Knapton [whttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradfield_church_from_the_south.jpg] [accedssed 12 October 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Eugene Birchall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3045062] [accessed 12 October 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font and the tall cover visible at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Eugene Birchall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3045031] [accessed 12 October 2018]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 9 October 2008 by John Ward

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Eugene Birchall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3045031] [accessed 12 October 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02006BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [orig. from Roche Abbey?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Town Gate, High Bradfield, Bradfield, Sheffield S6 6LG , UK -- Tel. (0114) 285 1225

Country Name: England

Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 8-10 km NW of Sheffield

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield

Historical Region: formerly West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only?], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: church here ca. 1109 (?) chapel-of-ease to Ecclesfield

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found in the Domesday survey for this Bradfield. Armitage (1905) reports that "the ancient Norman font was discovered in 1870" at the time of the restoration of the church by the then vicar, the Rev. Reginald Gatty. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Morris (1932): "Cup-shaped font on octagonal base." A recent source [The 'Guide to Bradfield Parish', produced by the Bradfield Parish Council [http://sandersonbradfieldandbeyond.co.uk/abrief.htm] notes: "The Norman font is said to have been given by the Cistercian monks of Roche Abbey". [NB: in his entry for Ecclesfield Eastwood (1862) notes: "In 1823 it was determined to entirely repew and otherwise alter the internal arrangements of the church"; as part of this re-arrangement "the capacious ancient font [was] banished to the hearse-house, to make way for an expensive shallow article of more modern shape, now in use in the church at Bradfield." -- It is not known whether this is the receiving church or whether or not the 'shallow article of modern shape' was retained there]. Harman & Pevsner (2017) note: "Font. C12. Plain round bowl of Roche Abbey limestone on octagonal stem. Plinnacled oak cover, 7 ft (2.1 metres) high, by Pace, 1959".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.42844, -1.5961

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 25′ 42.38″ N, 1° 35′ 45.96″ W

UTM: 30U 593278 5920851

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [magnesian limestone?]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; counterweight?

Notes: two covers: one is round and flat, with metal decoration and handle; the other is a tall open-work structure raised by a counterwright system, made by Pace in 1959

REFERENCES

Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Eastwood, Jonathan, London: Bell and Daldy, 1862

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932