Kettlewell

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BBL02: animal - mammal - boar? - head (emblem of the Nevilles?)

Scene Description: at one of the angles of the lower basin side

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BBL02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis?- 3

Scene Description: floral or foliage motif at three of the angles of the lower basin side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10484KET

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the B6160, about 20 km N of Skipton, in the western reaches of the Yorkshire Dales National Park

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Morris (1932) notes "a Trans[itional] of considerable interest" in this church. Mee (1941) notes: "fine tub font carved in the 12th century with simple leaves and an animal's head". Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Circular, C13, with small corner ornaments, two of them in stiff-leaf." The Kettlewell web site [www.kettlewell.info] states: "The font is all that remains of the original Norman Church. It has a boar's-head carving - the badge of the Nevilles on one corner and the fleur-de-lys, the badge of Mary, on the other three." The baptismal font consists of a tub-shaped basin, cylindrical and plain except for four motifs carved at 90-degree angles on the bottom sides where the block of stone widens and becomes quadrangular with chamfered angles; as indicated in the Kettlewell side above, three of the motifs are floral/foliage, the fourth appears to be an animal head; the basin is raised on a five support base, a broad central shaft and four thinner colonnettes at the angles, all polygonal (they appear to be quadrangular with chamfered angles); the lower base is also quadrangular with the angles and the upper sides chamfered as well. The wooden font cover, flat with metal decoration and handle, is modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round-to-square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

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

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