Knaresborough No. 1 / Cnaresburgh / Chenaresburg

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design element - architectural - arch or window

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3

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symbol - shield - blank - in a trefoil

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unidentified

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "View of Nidd viaduct and St John the Baptist church from Knaresborough Castle, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire."

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02029KNA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Vicarage Ln, Knaresborough HG5 9AE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1423 869209
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire [form. West Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A59, 6-7 km ENE of Harrowgate, 25 km N of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Burghsire -- formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is a multiple-place entry that includes Knaresborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3556/knaresborough/] [accessed 11 October 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's visit to this church probably in 1835 (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is an octagonal bowl, panelled with plain shields." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Morris (1932): "Octagonal font of rather coarse workmanship -- undoubtedly Perp[endicular]. The handsome classical font-cover is perhaps of the 18th century." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. The cover handsome with foliage scrolls of c. 1700." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3471157186] notes: "Parish church. Mainly mid C15 with late C12 remains and restoration of c1870. [...] Fine octagonal C15 font with shields and elaborately-carved font cover of c1700." Another source has: "The font is octagonal; the font cover cover is late Jacobean, from ca. 1685" [source: www.framland.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.00951, -1.47185
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 0′ 34.24″ N, 54° 0′ 34.24″ N
UTM: 30U 600143 5985660

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: late Jacobean, ca. 1685? / 18th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; pulley
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
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967