Cowthorpe
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B01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: on the four sides of the basin, to the sides of the shields
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B02: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Rouclyff
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070526036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B03: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Hamilton & Tempest
!["Hamilton impaling Tempest" [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070526033_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Hamilton impaling Tempest" [cf. Font notes]
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B04: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Roos
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B05: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Percy or Plumpton
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - interior
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view of basin - south and east sides
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view of church interior - looking northwest
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view of font in context
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view of basin - west side
Scene Description: coat of arms of the Rouclyff? [cf. Font notes]
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view of basin - north side
Scene Description: oat of arms of the Percy or Plumpton? [cf. Font notes]
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view of basin - east side
Scene Description: coat of arms of the Roos? [cf. Font notes]
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view of basin - south side
Scene Description: "Hamilton impaling Tempest"? [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09804COW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, 6 km N of Wetherby, 25 km NE of Leeds
Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Additional Comments: recycled font: MUST USE -- have pics -- three pieces of different origins
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne's 30 January 1871 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has shallow panelling and heraldic shields on the bowl, and a rude stem." Described in Morris (1932) as an old heraldic font "exhibiting the following arms: (i) Rouclyff; (ii) Hammerton impaling Tempest; (iii) Roos; (iv) (?) Percy or Plumpton." On the last set of arms Morris adds a footnote: "Probably the latter, though I have no note of the escallops with which the five fusils ought to be charged. But Plumpton, according to Dodsworth, formerly appeared in the 'East window' (Y.A.S., R.S., xxxiv, 99). In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Square, Perp[endicular], with on each side a shield flanked by blank tracery." A baptismal font of a composite nature consisting of a square basin, a cross-section pedestal and an octagonal base; all three pieces appear to be of a different origin; the square basin has sides tapering slightly in at the bottom, decorated with shields with coats of arms [cf. supra] on the four sides. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for his photographs of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: not lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: stone
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and plain; appears to be made of stone; date unknown; probably not a cover originally
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 151
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 165
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 172