West Kirby
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sue Adair, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2005 by Sue Adair [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/36643] [accessed 12 December 2012]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern Neo-Norman font and its cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St. Bridget, West Kirby, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish website [www.stbridgetschurch.org.uk/webpics/font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10772KIR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bridget
Church Patron Saints: St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Church Location: Church Road, West kirkby, Merseyside, CH48 7HL
Country Name: England
Location: Merseyside, North West
Directions to Site: Located in Wirral, on the NW tip, across from Birkenhead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: formerly Cheshire -- Hundred of Wirral
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church Notes: the Church of St Andrew, in Meols Drive, West Kirby, is late-19thC and has a modern pine wood font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Ellis (1902) notes: "The ancient font of West Kirby is now preserved in the museum in the old school-house adjoining the churchyard. It is badly damaged, having, after its removal from the church, been buried in the rectory garden, from whence it was rescued by the present rector. It is a plain octagon, without ornament, escept a roll moulding at the junction of the bowl with the shaft, and of the latter with the base. [...] It probably dates from the thirteenth or fourteenth century." Richards (1973) notes that "a number of ancient stones from the old building are preserved" in the east end of the north aisle; "Here also is the much damaged fifteenth century font. It is octagonal and was formerly in use as a flower vase on the terrace of the rectory garden." The present font, a cylindrical 19th-century neo-Norman basin on a plain round base, is noted and illustrated in the Parish website [www.stbridgetschurch.org.uk/webpics/font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2010]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.3687,
-3.1763
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 22′ 7.32″ N,
3° 10′ 34.68″ W
UTM: 30U 488269 5913301
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 6.25 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 102.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Ellis (1902: 80)]
REFERENCES
Ellis, John W., "The Mediaeval Fonts of the Hundreds of West Derby and Wirral", LVIII (New series: XVII), Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1902, pp. 59-80; r["References"]
Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973