Leeds No. 2
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11016LEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: old font was heraldic font -- new font is by William Butterfield
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Glynne wrote at the time of his visit to this church, probably in 1827 (in Butler, 2007) : "The font is an octagon, panelled with shields". Glynne later added a footnote to his entry recording the demolition of this church "in 1838 and rebuilt in a splendid style". It is not clear what happened to that (perhaps Perpendicular) font. Only the Victorian font is noted in Jenkins (2000) as "a fine marble font by Butterfield."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 275
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 806