Burghwallis / Burg / Burgh Wallis / Burgwallis
Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2015
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: 2015 drawing by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Un-buttressed Norman tower to St. Helen's church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/178235] [accessed 6 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Helen's church, Burghwallis. Lots of Norman herringbone masonry in the tower and nave, much of the rest 13th century Early English"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/178231] [accessed 6 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/516/] [accessed 6 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/516/] [accessed 6 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, to the left [south] of the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/516/] [accessed 6 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/516/] [accessed 6 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02007BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave, W of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: Grange Lane, Burghwallis, Doncaster DN6 9JL
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, 8-9 km NW of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgodcross [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font? (the present one, with an early basin on a later-date base) -- disappeared font? (the one of the original 10th-11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Burgh[wallis] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5312/burghwallis/] [accessed 6 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is mentioned in Glynne's 19 February 1862 visit: "The font has a circular bowl, with moulding round the top and base, and on an octagonal base." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Morris (1932), however, notes: "Interesting Trans[itional] font." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE5369612027] (1968) notes: "Church. C10-Cll and C12 with C14-C16 alterations; restored 1864 and 1883. [...] Round font bowl (possibly C12) set on later octagonal shaft." Noted in the CRSBI (2015): "The font might be represented by a few inches of the rim of the present font." The upper rim of the basin retains remains of the brackets from an old font cover hardware. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 10th-11th century church here -- the lack of mention of a church in the Domesday survey does not necessarily mean there was not one there at the time].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 619769 5940745
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.601822, -1.189986
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 36′ 6.56″ N, 1° 11′ 23.95″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration; modern
REFERENCES
- 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. 231
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 128
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 142