Kirkby Malham No. 1 / Chirchebi / Kirby Malham

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: around the lower side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph 15 August 2022 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

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design element - motifs - moulding - 2

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design element - motifs - sawtooth

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Scene Description: showing a disused font now used as a decorative planter

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Image Source: digital photograph 15 August 2022 by Colin Smith

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Image Source: from a watercolour by Mildred White, in [www.kirkbymalham.info/KMI/kirkbymalham/churchguide.html] [accessed 20 April 2012]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02010KIR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only] -- 19th century [base only], Medieval / composite

Cognate Fonts: The font at Birstall [No. 1], also in Yorkshire

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael

Church Notes: there may have been a church here since the 9thC, if not earlier; re-built 15thC; restored late 19thC

Church Address: Kirkby Malham, Skipton, BD23 United Kingdom

Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A65, 7-8 km ESE of Settle, 16 km NW of Skipton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire / Hundred of Crave [in Domesday]

Additional Comments: disused font / altered font / restored font / re-cycled font: "There are two fonts, an 11th C Norman one which was rescued from a farmyard and replaced in the church when it was restored in the late 19th century and its later replacement, which now stands by the entrance and is used as a planter." [e-mail communication from David Tippey, 4/8/2000] [Oct 2005: seem to have lost images from DT : have emailed Colin Hinson for same or his own -- reply from DT with images of both old and new fonts]]

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There is a multiple entry that includes Kirkby [Malham] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD8960/kirkby-malham/] [accessed 22 January 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it, despite its name [Chirchebi]. The Archaeological Journal (December 1844: 393) notes: "Mr. Jackson reports that a font of beautiful workmanship is lying unnoticed and nearly covered with grass in Kirkby Malhamdale church-yard. It is used for mixing up lime for whitewash, with which the arches and pillars of the church are periodically bedaubed." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Home (1908) mentions a Norman font here as well [NB: C&H and Home use spelling 'Kirby Malham']. Morris (1932) mentions a remarkable font from the Transitional period in this church. Noted in Betjeman (1958) as a font of the Transitional period [i.e., 1150-1200]. Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Primitive, circular, probably C12." David Tippey, of www.KirkbyMalham.info, has provided us information on this font: "There are two fonts, an 11th C Norman one which was rescued from a farmyard and replaced in the church when it was restored in the late 19th century [1889-90], and its later replacement, which now stands by the entrance and is used as a planter." [e-mail communication from David Tippey, 4/8/2000]. The Norman font is now mounted on a square pedestal of Victorian date; the font is almost cylindrical, slightly narrower at the top; the upper sides of the basin appear plain; towards the bottom it has a double moulding and a double band of saw-tooth motif; the lower end has two volumes: the upper one is a moulding, still round, like the basin; the lower one is plain but square, accommodating angle motifs [spurs] from the upper volume. The wooden lid is late 20th century. A similar font can be found at Birstall, also in Yorkshire. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD8940060997] notes: "Parish Church, late C15, restored 1879 to 81 [...] C11 font in baptistry with two bands of zigzag moulding on C19 base." [cf. Index entry for Kirkby Malham No. 2 for a polygonal basin also in this church]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Tippey, of www.KirkbyMalham.info, for the information and images of this font. We are also grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and fonts

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 554786 5988841

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.0449, -2.1633

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 2′ 41.64″ N, 2° 9′ 47.88″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: tub-shaped, round

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: no drainage system

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 5.08 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 43.14 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 53.30 cm*

Basin Depth: 22.86 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [Measurements supplied in inches by David Tippey]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century (late)

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: made by local artist/ blacsmith, Bill Wild

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 436
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
Home, Gordon, Yorkshire, Painted and Described, London: A. & C. Black, 1908, p. 144
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 209
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 295
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 287