Rothwell nr. Leeds / Rodewelle / Wrothwell
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lionel and Diana Wall, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Lionel and Diana Wall in Great English Churches [http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/rothwell.html] [accessed 30 October 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leeds Library & Information Services, 2015
Image Source: undated B&W photograph no. 2002212_54801577/RO1226 in LEODIS, a photographic archive of Leeds [www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002212_54801577] [accessed 20 August 2015]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lionel and Diana Wall, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Lionel and Diana Wall in Great English Churches [http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/rothwell.html] [accessed 30 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Davidson, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2005 by John Davidson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/46367] [accessed 20 August 2015
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: 2015 drawing by Robert Wilkes
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the basin and the cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lionel and Diana Wall, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Lionel and Diana Wall in Great English Churches [http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/rothwell.html] [accessed 30 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05537ROT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Cognate Fonts: the font at Wakefield [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: original church here ca.1130 [NB: there are local claims to a Saxon church here, but we found nothing to substantiate them]
Church Address: Church Street, Rothwell, West Yorkshire LS26 0QL, England
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the southeastern suburbs of Leeds, just E of the M1
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ripon and Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley [in Domesday]; Liberty of Pontefract
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original mid-12thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Rothwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3428/rothwell/] [accessed 20 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 23 January 1834 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is an octagonal basin, resembling that of Wakefield, with the date 1662, and surmounted by a high cover of wood." Noted in Smith (1881): "The font, erected shortly after the restoration, is octagonal with ornamented bordered panels, bearing the raised lettering and date C. R. 1662. R. W. VICARIUS, WROTHWELL, and the initials of seven churchwardens -- one for each township." Bond (1908) informs of a Post-Reformation font cover dated 1662 [NB: no mention made of the font itself]. Morris (1932) notes it as a Restoration font "of considerable interest" decorated with an inscription [cf. Inscription area] and a "the canopy is said to be contemporary." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Octagonal, dated 1662, decorated mostly with the initials of the donors. Font cover. A splendid 'Jacobean' piece, although in all probability also of 1662. The octagonal stages with openwork decoration and a three-tier spire." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP8162081144] notes: "Parish Church. C12, C13, C14, C15, early C16. Spire collapsed 1660. Transepts cut down, 1673. Chancel restored 1848, the remainder restored between 1893 and 1910. [...] Fittings include unusual hexagonal C13 font with detached ringed angle shafts."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful Lionel and Diana Wall for their photographs of this church and font, and and to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 600337 5956974
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.751732, -1.478281
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 45′ 6.23″ N, 1° 28′ 41.81″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "C.R. 1662 ; R.W., Vicarius, Wrothwell"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Smith (1881), Morris (1932)
LID INFORMATION
Date: Restoration / 1662
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 291
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 349
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 431
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 44, 423
- Smith, William, Old Yorkshire, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1881, p. 129, 130