Monk Fryston / Fristun / Fryston Monk / Monke Friston / Monkfriston / Munechesfryston

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St Wilfred's, Monk Fryston. Ancient church built using the local Magnesian limestone. The lower part of the tower is Saxon, with the rest of the building showing work from the 13th and 14th centuries."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Wilfred's, Monk Fryston. Ancient church built using the local Magnesian limestone. The lower part of the tower is Saxon, with the rest of the building showing work from the 13th and 14th centuries."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Hatton, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2009 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1167732] [accessed 16 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2012 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Wilfrid,_Monk_Fryston_(8054757085).jpg] [accessed 16 November 2018]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Source caption: "Interior of St Wilfrid's, Monk Fryston. This lovely old church has seen many changes through the centuries but its origins lie in pre-Norman times."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Wilfrid's, Monk Fryston. This lovely old church has seen many changes through the centuries but its origins lie in pre-Norman times."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neal Theasby, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2013 by Neal Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3582423] [accessed 16 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02018MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid of Ripon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith] [originally dedicated to St. Mary?]
Church Notes: Pre-Conquest church believed to have existed here; re-built ca. 1080; a parochial Chapelry, in the deanry of the Ainsty; modified 15thC; restored ca. 1890
Church Address: Monk Fryston, Leeds LS25 5PL, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A63, just E of the A162 crossing, 10 km W of Selby, 12 km N of Pontefract, 22 km E of Leeds
Historical Region: Wapentake of Barstone Ash -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Pre-Conquest church here)
Font Notes:
No individual entry for Monk Fryston found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. Noted in Morris (1932): "Massive square font, probably contemporary with the nave arcades [i.e., Early English]. This has nail-head ornament, and only two of the sides are carved -- an example of considerable interest." Mee (1941) writes: "From the 17th century come [...] and the finial crowning the modern cover of the font, whose bowl is said to be 13th century on an older base." In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Square, perhaps C13. Each side with a very flatly carved cross in a circle and above that an arch-head with a fleur-de-lys. A little nail-head decoration." Ditto in Harman & Pevsner (2017). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5052129745] notes: "Church. Anglo Saxon origins with C13, C14, C15, C17, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. [...] Font is probably C13: square on plan, each side with a flatly carved cross in a circle and above that an arch-head with a fleur-de-lys; wooden cover dated 1669 and suspended from decorated wrought-iron chain."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 616352 5958466
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.761803, -1.234955
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 45′ 42.49″ N, 1° 14′ 5.84″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1699 / 17th century & modern [cf. FontNotes]
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
  • Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 411
  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 263
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 362
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 372