Bradford, St. Peter's / Bradeford
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Scene Description: the Victorian font with the 16thC cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James, 1985
Image Source: James (1985: 74)
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Scene Description: the Victorian font
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design element - patterns
Scene Description: the Victorian font
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
Scene Description: the Victorian font
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design element - motifs - tracery - Gothic
Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James, 1985
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view of church interior
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: the Victorian font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James, 1985
Image Source: James (1985: 74)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09267BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: The font cover at Halifax
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral Church of St. Peter's [Church of St. Peter until 1920 when it became cathedral]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: first recorded church here 1281, but probably re-built on earlier church(es)
Church Address: 1 Stott Hill, Bradford BD1 4EH, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km W of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Bradford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1633/bradford/] [accessed 16 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Morris (1932) notes: Very fine font-cover, probably 15th-century", but does not mention the font. Mee (1941) notes: "The modern font has a splendid 15th century cover like a spire, adorned with tracery and pinnacles." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font cover. A spectacular Late Gothic piece, tall, with tall spire, and a filigree of buttresses and tracery (cf. Halifax)." Described and illustrated in James (1985) as an octagonal mounted font of the 15th century. Ryder (1993) reports the font as Victorian "but the font cover is an impressive piece of 16th-century work." The basin is octagonal, very regular, with vertical sides; there is a narrow double band of decorative motif at the upper tim side, and the panels of the sides are decorated with tracery motifs in quatrefoil windows; the chamfered underbowl has foliage motif all around; the pedestal base is octagonal and with vertical sides as well, and has a single blind trefoil arch on each side; the lower base is also octagonal and slightly splayed, decorated with graded moildings. A tall wooden cover covered in tracery and cusped pinacles covers the font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 582501 5961503
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.795556, -1.7475
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 47′ 44″ N, 1° 44′ 51″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: unknown
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 81
- Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 74
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 33, 123
- Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 143