Kirby Knowle No. 2 / Chirchebi / Kirkby Knowle / Kirkeby Undercnol

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/517081] [accessed 5 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/517081] [accessed 5 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Wilfrid, Kirby Knowle. Built in 1873, the very traditional building with its tower over the porch seems always to have been part of the landscape.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/517010] [accessed 5 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/517076] [accessed 5 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font in use, athe far [west] end, left [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/517078] [accessed 5 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the base is said to belong to the 17th-century basin located outside, by the south portal [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 17th-century basin in the cobtext of the south portal [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/517058] [accessed 5 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09599KIR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid

Church Patron Saints: St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]

Church Location: Whinmoor Hill, Kirby Knowle, North Yorkshire YO7 2JQ

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located near Upsall, 7 km NE of Thirsk, on the border of the North Yorkshire Moors

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Yarlestre [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: The basin is outside in the churchyard; the base is inside the church

Century and Period: 17th century,

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Kirby [Knowle] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE4687/kirby-knowle/] [accessed 5 December 2014]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Bulmer's Directory... (1890: 737) informs that an old baptismal font was in the churchyard at the time. The entry for this church in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The whole building was erected in 1873–4 on an ancient site, little of the former church being left except one or two stones in different places. The oldest of these are two over the entrance to the south porch, which are carved with early 12th-century interlacing work. [...] In the churchyard are some more old stones, including the head and stump of a pre-Conquest cross, an old stone coffin, a stoup and what appears to be the head of a 12th-century window. There is also a font of much later date, probably of the 17th century, with a circular bowl and a stem of the same form with a moulded capital and base." The Hillside Villages web page [www.thirsk.org.uk/kirbyknowle.church.html] confirms that " a 17th century font is in the churchyard but its original base remains in the church". [cf. Index entry for Kirby Knowle No. 1 for an earlier holy-water stoup moved into the church ca. 1873]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.279297, -1.282733

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 16′ 45.47″ N, 1° 16′ 57.84″ W

UTM: 30U 611806 6015958

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890