Bradfield / Bradfield nr. Sheefield / High Bradfield
Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 9 October 2008 by John Ward
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Star Atkinson, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gemma Longman, 2010
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mick Knapton, 2008
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 font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugene Birchall, 2011
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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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the old font and the tall cover visible at the far end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugene Birchall, 2011
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 church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugene Birchall, 2011
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02006BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only?], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [orig. from Roche Abbey?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: church here ca. 1109 (?) chapel-of-ease to Ecclesfield
Church Address: Town Gate, High Bradfield, Bradfield, Sheffield S6 6LG , UK -- Tel. (0114) 285 1225
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8-10 km NW of Sheffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: formerly West Riding of Yorkshire
Additional Comments: recycled font? earlier at an abbey church?
Font Notes:
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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".
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 593278 5920851
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.42844, -1.5961
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 25′ 42.38″ N, 1° 35′ 45.96″ W
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, p. 225
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
- Eastwood, Jonathan, London: Bell and Daldy, 1862, p. 229
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 136
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p, 132