Pontefract No. 1 / Pomfret

Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' Church, Pontefract. A church within a church. The original largely ruined church was badly damaged during the siege of Pontefract Castle in 1645."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Theasby, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2015 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4401653] [accessed 18 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Remains of Norman chapel, Pontefract Castle. This is the chancel and apse."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2016 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5220516] [accessed 18 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 02031PON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: South Baileygate, Pontefract WF8 2JL, UK -- Tel.: 01977 600207 / +44 1977 695590
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A1-M62 junction, 25 km SE of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church Notes: possible pre-Conquest building originally the parish church of Pontefract; in 1789 St Giles' took over and All Saints' became an independent parish
No individual entry for Pontrefact found in the Domesday survey. [cf. Index entry for Pontefract No. 2 for the 15th-century font originally from this church]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original pre-Conquest church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.69658, -1.3008
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 41′ 47.69″ N, 1° 18′ 2.88″ W
UTM: 30U 612185 5951105

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