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: coat of arms - Rouclyff

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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B03: coat of arms - Hamilton & Tempest

Scene Description: "Hamilton impaling Tempest" [cf. Font notes]

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B04: coat of arms - Roos

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B05: coat of arms - Percy or Plumpton

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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 - interior

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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 - south and east sides

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view of basin - south side

Scene Description: "Hamilton impaling Tempest"? [cf. Font notes]

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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 church interior - looking northwest

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view of font - southeast side

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09804COW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967