Carleton-in-Craven / Carlton-in-Craven

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at each end of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a 9 October 2009 digital photograph by Alexander P Kapp, in Geograph [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1532467] [accessed 31 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carleton in Craven (North Yorkshire), United Kingdom"
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Image Source: edited detail of a 3 August 2009 digital photograph by Immanuel Giel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_in_Carleton_02.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2022]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin, Carleton-in-Craven, Font" -- the old font in the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a 9 October 2009 digital photograph by Alexander P Kapp, in Geograph [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1532467] [accessed 31 December 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 02008CAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Louvain Terrace, Carleton, Skipton BD23 3DE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1756 793612
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A629, 2-3 km SW of Skipton, 25-30 km NW of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: South Pennines / Hundred of Craven [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: originally a chapelry of Skipton, as documented in the time of Thurstan [Turstin of Bayeux], 12thC, in Dalton (1990) [https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1870/1/DX182025.pdf] [accessed 31 December 2022]
Font Notes:
A multiple entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD9749/carleton/] [accessed 31 December 2022] includes "Carlentone" and "Lodresdene" [Lothersdale] in the lordship of Gamal (son of Karli) in 1066 and of Roger of Poitou (in 1086); it mentions no details in either. A font here is noted in Glynne's 10 June 1856 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an early cylindrical bowl, on a circular stem." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The font is not mentioned in Morris (1932) or in Pevsner (1986). The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: SD9736649821] notes: "Parish church, 1859. By F H Pownall in a vigorous Gothic.", and mentions no font in it. Baptism records for this place in the Natianal Archives [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/44908cbc-776a-4640-b4a9-e9735d885651] [accessed 31 December 2022] start in 1537 [for the earlier church?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.944492, -2.041616
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 56′ 40.17″ N, 2° 2′ 29.82″ W
UTM: 30U 562904 5977771

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007