Ecclesfield / Eclesfelt

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view of church exterior - south view

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07379ECC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [earlier: St. John the Baptist's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [earlier: St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: church built early-12thC but name suggests an earlier church was in place, perhaps as early as the 7thC; present church chiefly late-15thC
Church Address: 36 Church St, Ecclesfield, Sheffield S35 9WE, UK -- Tel.: +44 114 245 0106
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B6087, 7 km N of Sheffield, now a suburb
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks -- Hallamshire
Additional Comments: disused font / re-instated font / restored font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Ecclesfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3594/ecclesfield/] [accessed 6 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 10 December 1852 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is a bad one of octagonal form, A.D. 1662, with shallow figures alternatively of human beings and roses, restored 1852." Eastwood (1862) writes: "In 1662 the present font was made, as appears from the date engraved around the rim. This [font] was removed in 1825, and thrown aside as not being in keeping with the style of alterations then made. It was restored in 1852". This same source reports from the parish account books the 1764 repair of "font pullies and top". Eastwood (1862) adds: "In 1823 it was determined to entirely repew and otherwise alter the internal arrangements of the church"; as part of this re-arrangement "the capacious ancient font [was] banished to the hearse-house, to make way for an expensive shallow article of more modern shape, now in use in the church at Bradfield." Eastwood reports that "the capacious old font of 1662 […] was restored to a place by the door of the church, so near its right position as the present arrangement of the pews would allow; it was first re-used for baptisms January 4th, 1852. A new basement [sic] was added by the vicar, bearing this inscription:-- '+ Hunc fontem loco pristino per xxvii. Annos amotum vicarius restitui voluit, A.D. MDCCCLII'." Eastwood (ibid.) notes that "The Vicar and the Rev. George Trevor, M.A., Canon of York, being chiefly instrumental in the restoration." Reported in Armitage (1905) as a font dated to 1662 [NB: Armitage and Glynne give the dedication of the church as St. John the Baptist]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662. Morris (1932) notes it as a font of the Restoration period dated by an inscription to 1662. Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Octagonal on heavily moulded plinth. The eight panels of the bowl contain a heart, a rose, a fleur-de-lis, a lozenge, and the four numerals 1-6-6-2." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK3530394220] notes: "Church. Arcade piers of c1200, rest largely Perpendicular. [...] Font: octagonal on moulded plinth, bears date 1662, reworked."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 601627 5922709
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.4436, -1.4699
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 26′ 36.96″ N, 1° 28′ 11.64″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: basin side
Inscription Text: [1662]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes for an added inscription in 1852]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905, p. 245
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 174
  • Eastwood, Jonathan, London: Bell and Daldy, 1862, p. 224, 227, 229, 230, 231, 296, 450
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 169-170
  • Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 235
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 183
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 44, 190