Halifax nr. Bradford
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view of font and cover - northeast side
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design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: a large one on each side of the underbowl
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Halifax Parish Church, from Bailey Hall Bank"
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view of font and cover in context - west view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 October 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1025591] [accessed 18 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02028HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Another such at Bradford, also in West Yorkshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [Halifax Minster since 2009]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: original church pre-1150; much modified through the centuries; became minster 2009)
Church Address: Church St, Halifax HX1 1QL , UK -- Tel.: (01422) 355436
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km SW of Bradford -- the church is located on Church Street
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original pre-1150 church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Halifax in the Domesday survey. Glynne's 21 January 1834 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is octagonal and plain, but having over it a rich wood canopy of tabernacle work." In Moule (1837): "The font is an octagonal basin, with a beautiful spiral cover, sixteen feet in height." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period [NB: C&H do not give the name of the church, but it is assumed they refer to this one rather than the one at Halifax- Low Moor, also with a Perpendicular font]. Morris (1932) notes: "Curious font, much of the canopy of which seems to be genuine Perp[endicular], though much is apparently later." Noted and illustrated in Needham (1944) as 15th-century, made of oak. Pevsner (1986 c1967) describes the font cover: "Excellent C15 piece of spire shape with two tiers of open-work arches and canopies (cf. Bradford). Jenkins (2000: 801) on the cover: "In the middle of the nave rises the font cover, a masterpiece of Perpendicular woodwork that survided the Commonwealth by being hidden in a private house". [cf. entry for Halifax-Low Moor, for another font of this period in the church of the Holy Trinity]. The font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919). Ryder (1993) describes the font as being "of 15th-century date" and the cover as an "impressive contemporary canopy".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 575635 5953335
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.7232, -1.85371
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 43′ 23.52″ N, 1° 51′ 13.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Perpendicular? / 15th century? [in part]
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; counterweight?
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. 201
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 270
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 328
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 801
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 240
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 469
- Neeham, Albert, How to study an old church, London: Batsford, 1944, pl. X
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 230
- Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 155