Chapel Allerton nr. Leeds

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B01: inscription - partial - side1

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B02: inscription - partial - side2

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B03: inscription - partial - side3

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B04: inscription - partial - side4

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BU01: design element - motifs - geometric

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

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BU03: design element - motifs - foliage

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - 2

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view of church interior

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05180CHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew

Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: In the northern area of Leeds, south of the ring-road

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, centre of the aisle

Date: 1637

Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration

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A communication by T.M. Fallow, of Chapel Allerton, in the Jan. 5, 1884 issue of 'Notes and Queries', reads: "The font here, at Chapel Allerton, bears an inscribed date and is of somewhat of curious design. The original base has disappeared, but the shaft and bowl remain; the whole is very rudely carved in stone; so much so that inexperienced critics have at times supposed that the shaft is a piece of Saxon work, appropriated in later times to its present use; this however is not the case. The bowl of the font is octagonal externally, and is sloped out angularly from the shaft. In the compartment now facing the east is a rude representation of three rude branches with three roses, the two side branches slanting in either direction from that in the centre. In the compartment to the north of this there is a rudely carved fleur de lys, and in that to the south a thistle. The other five compartments are filled with nondescript designs of no significance. Round the upper portion of the outside of the bowl is a flat rim, about two inches in depth, and along this, beginning on the side now facing the south, is very rudely carved in raised letters (some of the h's being sideways for want of room), the following inscription: THER : IS | ONE : LORD | ONE : FA | ITH : ONE | BAPTI | SME [high dot] EP [sideways H] | ESIANS | 4.5 [high dot]1637. The font has been frequently moved, and the church built twice since 1637." Bond (1908) mentions only "a doctrinal inscription" on this font, a quotation from Ephesians, 4:5 and the date 1637 [cf. Inscription area]. Morris (1932) notes that this town "has a very rare example of a Carolean font [Charles I, Stuart], made just before the outbreak of the Civil War (1637)", and quotes the text of the inscription. Mee (1941) notes: "the quaint little font has a bowl over 300 years old." The octagonal basin has an inscription in large letters; the chamfered underbowl has a variety of floral, foliage and geometric motifs; slender rounded stem with octagonal moulding at top and bottom; octagonal lower base; octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for the phptographs of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lined

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English and numbers

Inscription Notes: N./A

Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: "THER : IS / ONE : LORD / ONE : FA / ITH : ONE / BAPTI / SME : EPH / ESIANS / 4.5. 1637"

Inscription Source: Fallow (1884: 13); Bond (1985 c1908: 115); Morris (1932: 152) [and ImageArea]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, two levels, with knob handle

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

[various correspondents], "Dates on fonts", 6th S: IX, Jan. 5, 1884, Notes and Queries, 1884, pp. 13-14; r["References"]