Calverley / Caverleia

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02024CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / Modern?, Perpendicular? / Modern?
Cognate Fonts: Other such font covers at Skipton and Long Preston
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Church Address: Town Gate, Calverley, Pudsey LS28 5NF, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A657, near the A6120 (the NW side of the Leeds Ring Rd.), 7 km NE of Bradford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales [formerly York]
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Calverley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2137/calverley/] [accessed 17 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 21 November 1863 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is of octagonal form, plain, and dimishing to the stem, but the cover is a very beautiful one, though of mixed Gothic and Italian forms, rising quite high, with pretty tabernacle work, and drawn up on a pulley." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Morris (1932) notes only the canopy: "Fine old Jacobean canopy to font." Mee (1941) notes: "The font has a fine 17th century cover". Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font cover. A very good Jacobean piece, octagonal with two tiers of openwork tracery and foliage, and a spire (cf. Skipton, Long Preston)." Ryder (1993) reports "a good Jacobean cover" in this church but does not mention the font itself. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE1394732236] notes: "Parish church. 1904-05, fittings added 1908 and 1925-26. [...] Stone font with six shafts supporting bowl."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 586539 5965432
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.8302, -1.6851
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 49′ 48.72″ N, 1° 41′ 6.36″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean / 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley system
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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. 135
  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 93
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 144
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 44, 153
  • Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 145