Copgrove / Copegrave
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the reconstructed font that includes the old lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: the old disused basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph tajken 10 August 2018 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5960077] [accessed 17 January 2020]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the reconstructed font that includes the old lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph tajken 10 August 2018 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5960066] [accessed 17 January 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph tajken 10 August 2018 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5960063] [accessed 17 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph tajken 10 August 2018 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5960068] [accessed 17 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph tajken 10 August 2018 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5960081] [accessed 17 January 2020]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the reconstructed font that includes the old lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: the old lower base, now part of the reconstructed font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the old lower base, now part of the reconstructed font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: the old lower base, now part of the reconstructed font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: The Devil's Stone
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Barker, 2020
Image Source: digital image by John Barker, in Beyond the Pale [http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/xcopgrove2.jpg] [accessed 17 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02009COP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Notes: Devil's Stone, perhaps a Sheela-na-gig, at some point now on the vestry wall, then moved inside the church [http://www.sheelanagig.org/wordpress/copgrove/] [accessed 17 January 2020]
Church Address: Wath Ln, Copgrove, Harrogate HG3 3TY, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between the A61 (W) and the A1(M)(E), 7 kms N of Knaresborough, 8 km SW of Boroughbridge, SE of Ripon, about 40 kms N of Leeds
Historical Region: formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: restored font / altered font / composite font : only the base of the present font is original, the rest is modern, but the original basin is still retained inside the church, disused now) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Copgrove [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3463/copgrove/] [accessed 17 January 2020]; it reports a church in it. Glynne's 21 November 1860 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is a circular jar on a square plinth, having the tongue-like figures at the angles." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Morris (1932), however, notes: "The base of the font has cable moulding, and is probably contemporary with the church" [i.e., Norman]. The present font has reused the old base, but the rest, basin, stem and plinth, are modern replacements. The base itself is has an octagonal rope moulding at the neck where it meets the new stem; thick moulding below, also octagonal, the lower volume square with spurs (?) at the angles. The old basin, a plain round tub, lies disused inside the church, next to a wall-mounted stone stoup. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3463963243] reports the church as "C12 and C18, restored 1889" but mentions no font in it.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this reconstructed font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 600008 5991751
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.06426, -1.4719
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 3′ 51.34″ N, 1° 28′ 18.84″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining in the old tub
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration
REFERENCES
- 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. 147
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 162