Methley / Medelai
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Results: 5 records
view of font in context - north side
Scene Description: notice the damageed front panels on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Glenn Taylor, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Glenn Taylor, in Rose & Lavender [https://roseandlavender.co.uk/st-oswalds-methley/] [accessed 18 October 2018]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by JWH engraved by Orlando Jewitt, in Fawcett (1844)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chemical Engineer, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2017 by Chemical Engineer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Oswald_Methley_28_April_2017_01.jpg]
[accessed 18 October 2018]]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chemical Engineer, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2017 by Chemical Engineer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Oswald_Methley_28_April_2017_28.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2018]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Glenn Taylor, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Glenn Taylor, in Rose & Lavender [https://roseandlavender.co.uk/st-oswalds-methley/] [accessed 18 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 October 2018)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05680MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Address: Methley, Leeds LS26 9BJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1977 515686
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A639, just N of the M62, 15 km ESE of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Agbrigg -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Methley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3927/methley/] [accessed 18 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Illustration by Jewitt in Fawcett (1844); plain octagonal mounted font; tall wooden cover consisting of two lower volumes with vertical sides ornamented with foliage and plant motifs; the upper volume is a narrow pyramid; all octagonal. The font is raised on a square plinth. Noted in Glynne's 18 September 1869 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl, of debased character, with a wooden cover of tabernacle work, of similar date, but handsome." Mee (1941) notes: "the 14th century font has a Jacobean cover". Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes only of the cover: "Elizabethan, octagonal, two tiers of openwork panels and a spire over. Made according to the will of 1584 of one Richard Webster of Methley, painter." Ryder (1993) reports "a fifteenth-century font with a cover of 1584" here. The entry for Methley in The Rose & Lavender site [https://roseandlavender.co.uk/2017/06/12/st-oswalds-methleys-jewel-in-the-crown/] [accessed 18 October 2018] notes: "The stone font by the south door in St Oswald’s is made of stone and lined with lead and dates from the 15th century. The wooden font cover is Jacobean and was provided by the will of Richard Webster of Methley in 1584. The font was actually discarded and rediscovered in 1898 by the Rev H. Armstrong. The bowl was found in a poultry yard and the stem was used by a mason at the other end of the village!"
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 604948 5955154
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.73447, -1.409
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 44′ 4.09″ N, 1° 24′ 32.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1584? / 16th - 17th century? / Elizabethan? Jacobean?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Fawcett, Joshua, Churches of Yorkshire, Leeds: T.W. Green, 1844
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 292
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 256
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 364
- Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 167