Arncliffe

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view of church interior

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Image Source: Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 May 2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09799ARN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald

Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off the B6160, 20-25 km NNW of Skipton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, W end, opposite the entrance

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for his photographs of this font and church.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Octagonal mounted baptismal font in the Perpendicular style; the sides of the basin are decorated with large deeply-carved quatrefoil windows, and the upper and lower rims are thick mouldings; plain underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal. The tallish pyramidal cover of octagonal base has crocketed arris and flowery finial; pulley-system to raise the cover. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.genuki.org.uk for his photographs of this font and church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; counterweight pulley-system

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]