Harewood / Hareuuode / Harewode

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - west end

Scene Description: View from the transept: the font appears at the foot of the nave, before the W door

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: View of the nave, facing east

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09807HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Sandy Gate, Harewood, Leeds LS17 9LG
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A61-A659, 9 km N of Leeds (dir. Harrogate)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Skyrack [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-cut?], Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photographs of church and font.
There is entry for this Harewood [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3245/harewood/] [accessed 18 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described succintly in Gough (1792): "a cup on a rude base." The vicissitudes of the font within the church are related in Jones (1859): ''A faculty was granted on the 25th of October, 1782, to William Kirby, Samuel Midgley, James Bland and Joseph Midgley, to remove the font from the middle aisle of the church, the same being inconveniently placed, and proving very incommodious to the parishioners going up the said aisle to the altar. Subsequently it was removed to the north east corner, where it continued until the induction of the present vicar, when it was removed as near as possible to its canonical place. It is very ancient, having the appearance of having been used for total immersion, it has, however, been much altered." Noted in Glynne's visit to this church ca. 1835 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is Norman, in the shape of a circular cup with rope ornament round the base." Morris (1932) notes: "Font with cable moulding, perhaps Norm[an]." -- the 'Yorkshire Notes and Queries', vol. V (1909) mentions the "Harewood font (Norman circular)", and so does Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Circular and heavily moulded; C13 and re-cut (?)"]. The Churches Conservation Trust [http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/uploads/publications/67.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2008] notes that there are two fonts in this church: a circular ''tub-shaped Norman one and a a carved Victorian one'', the latter having been introduced into this church in 1862-63. [***NB: the baptismal font for which we have photographic evidence, however, appears to be of the Perpendicular period, like the rest of the church; octagonal basin with straight vertical sides decorated with foliage and/or floral motifs; pedestal base. Flat metal cover with Latin cross finial -- to be resolved]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.9003, -1.524
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 54′ 1.08″ N, 1° 31′ 26.4″ W
UTM: 30U 596979 5973438

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown
Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]
Jones, John, The History and Antiquities of Harewood, in the County of York, Harewood: [s.n.], 1859
Lawton, George, Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum de dioecesi eboracensi, or, Collections relatives to churches and chapels within the diocese of York, to which are added Collections relative to churches and chapels withing the diocese of Ripon, London; York: J. G. and F. Rivington, […] Hatchard and Son, […] and H. Bellerby, 1842