Halifax nr. Bradford

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design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: a large one on each side of the underbowl

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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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 March 2008 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halifax_Parish_Church_(2325296444).jp] [accessed 18 October 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Halifax Parish Church, from Bailey Hall Bank"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2008 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/2902908956] [accessed 18 October 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover - northeast side

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view of font and cover in context - west view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02028HAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [Halifax Minster since 2009]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Church St, Halifax HX1 1QL , UK -- Tel.: (01422) 355436

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km SW of Bradford -- the church is located on Church Street

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: Another such at Bradford, also in West Yorkshire

Church Notes: original church pre-1150; much modified through the centuries; became minster 2009)

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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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.7232, -1.85371

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 43′ 23.52″ N, 1° 51′ 13.36″ W

UTM: 30U 575635 5953335

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

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017

Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Neeham, Albert, How to study an old church, London: Batsford, 1944

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967

Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993