Crofton / Scroftune / Scrotone
Image copyright © All Saints Church, Crofton, 2018
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © All Saints Church, Crofton, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.crofton.org.uk/church/baptism.html] [accessed 25 October 2018
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © All Saints Church, Crofton, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.crofton.org.uk/church/baptism.html] [accessed 25 October 2018
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © All Saints Church, Crofton, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.crofton.org.uk/church/baptism.html] [accessed 25 October 2018
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © All Saints Church, Crofton, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.crofton.org.uk/church/baptism.html] [accessed 25 October 2018
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02026CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S side, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Stock Ln, Crofton, Wakefield WF4 1PW, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A638, 6 km ESE of Wakefield, 10 km W of Pontefract
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Agbrigg -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Anglo-Saxon church here?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Crofton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3718/crofton/] [accessed 25 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 9 March 1854 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has an octagonal bowl panelled with flower containing shields, the stem has several octagonal bands." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Morris (1932) notes: "Good Perp[endicular] octagonal font. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3778818126] notes: "Church. Crossing tower c1300 otherwise c1430 Perpendicular for Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln (a native of Crofton), restored c1875 by Leake and Denison (Normanton). [...] Remains of 2 Saxon crosses. [...] C15 octagonal font has shields set in quatrefoils to each face." Noted and illustrated in the Parish site [www.crofton.org.uk/church/baptism.html] [accessed 25 October 2018]: "On entering the church, you will see on your left a stone font in which, traditionally, baptisms are carried out. This font is in the traditional position, by the door. In it new members are baptised into the family of the Church. There is also a portable font in the church. This is a recent addition. Its use allows everyone to see what happens in baptisms more clearly than with the older font." Harman & Pevsner (2017) mention the Saxon crosses but not a font in this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 603749 5946672
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.6585, -1.43
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 39′ 30.6″ N, 1° 25′ 48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat with metal dcorations and ring handle
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. 154
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 186
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 167