Skelmanthorpe

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - 3

Scene Description: on this side the centre arch does not have supports

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: on two of the sides, four arches or niches on each, each filled with foliage, scrolls, plants, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - intersecting arches - 3

Scene Description: on this side the centre arch has supports

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - plant or tree?

Scene Description: inside the right panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: all around originally, but some has been obliterated

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - rope - double

Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin, but on one the double rope serves as braid on the female head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - scroll (or Tree of life?) - 4

Scene Description: the two on the left, with human heads as finials

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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human figure - female - head - hair in a braid

Scene Description: on which the double rope motif serves as braid

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: in the centre arch-head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: on the two plant or scroll motifs on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin

Image Source: Original photograph by C. Mosley reproduced in www.huddersfield1.co.uk/huddersfield/tolson

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view of basin

Image Source: Original photograph by C. Mosley reproduced in www.huddersfield1.co.uk/huddersfield/tolson

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2018 by Zath Ras [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skelmanthorpe_St_Aidan.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The former High Hoyland Church from Litherop Road. Now a private residence." SKELMANTHORPE ST AIDAN's EXT digital photograph taken 7 October 2018 by Zath Ras [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skelmanthorpe_St_Aidan.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2018] SKELMANTHORPE FONT digital photograph taken 29 May 2010 by Betty Longbottom [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1885290] [accessed 16 October 2018] Source caption: "Font - St Aidan's Church. This was sculptured c.1080A.D. for High Hoyland Church.It was installed in St Aidan's c 1894/95."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 February 2008 by Steve Fareham [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/708518] [accessed 16 October 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2018 by Zath Ras [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skelmanthorpe_St_Aidan.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2018] SKELMANTHORPE FONT digital photograph taken 29 May 2010 by Betty Longbottom [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1885290] [accessed 16 October 2018]

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11024SKE

Museum and Inventory Number: [a replica copy of this font is at the Tolson Museum, in Huddersfield]

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Aidan

Church Patron Saints: St. Aidan [aka Aedan]

Church Location: St Aidan's Church is located on Radcliffe Street, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield HD8 9AF, UK [NB: coordinates given are for High Hoyland All Hallows']

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Huddersfield

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: [High Hoyland was in the Hundred of Staincross]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side

Date: ca. 1080?

Century and Period: 11th century [basin only], Medieval [composite font?]

Cognate Fonts: [a replica copy of this font is at the Tolson Museum, in Huddersfield] -- probably of the same style and period as the font at Cawthorne, in the same county

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Philip Reynolds, of Skelmanthorpe St. Aidan's, for the added information on this font, and to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.

Church Notes: High Hoyland All Hallows [aka All Saints'] became redundant in the 1980s (?) and sold to Leeds University; became All Hallows Gallery in 2003

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [High] Hoyland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2710/high-hoyland/] [accessed 16 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A communication from the Vicar of St Aidan's, the Rev. Philip Reynolds [e-mail of 27 September 2005 -- BSI file] informs: St Aidan's font was made over 900 years ago in about 1080 AD, one of the last Anglo-Saxon carvings of the period just after the Norman Invasion [i.e., 1066 AD]. This font was created for the first church at High Royland, but it was thrown out in the 18th Century and used as a cattle trough! Only in 1895 was it restored to its ancient and proper purpose when rescued for use in St Aidan's Church, which was built then." Collingwood [cf. infra] writes: "Though the Skelmanthorpe font has not the dragons and crosses of the Cawthorne font, it shows a curious pair of heads taking the place of flowers on the tree-scrolls of two panels; and on two sides are intersected arcades [...] so that the date of these two fonts must be at the end of the eleventh at earliest. They seem to belong to the generation following the Norman Conquest" but, argues Collingwood (ibid.), the carvers of these two fonts must have executed the work before the Norman expertise and style had settled among the artisans of this region. [NB: this same source informs that the Tolson Museum of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, has a a replica of this font, "a cast made by Mr. Lockwood" [source: 'Angles, Danes and Norse in the district of Huddersfield', by W.G. Collingwood, Tolson Museum Booklet, 2nd ed.] The square basin is monolithic [was there ever a base?] and is decorated with rope motif all around the upper rim, although it has been practically obliterated on at least one of the sides; the vertical angles are decorated with a pattern resembling a braid or wheat-sheaf; two of the sides are decorated with an arcade of three intersecting round arches, the centre one coinciding with the spandrel created by the other two and containing a (?) motif; the other two sides appear to have four arches or niches on each, these decorated as indicated in Collingwood, at least one of the plant-like motifs has a thistle head, another a clover, much like those found in the Cawthorne font. The base, informs Rev. Reynolds, is a Victorian addition. This font is noted in Ryder (1993). Harman & Pevsner (2017) date as "Anglo-Saxon or early Norman" and note the similarity with the font at Cawthorne.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.59194, -1.5858

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 35′ 30.98″ N, 1° 35′ 8.88″ W

UTM: 30U 593602 5939052

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 8 - 9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 47 x 50 cm

Basin Depth: 31 cm [at centre]

Basin Total Height: 51 cm

Height of Base: 60 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 111 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 132 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 65 x 67 cm

Notes on Measurements: Source: the Rev. Philip Reynolds, of Skelmanthorpe St Aidan's

REFERENCES

Collingwood, W.G., Angles, Danes and Norse in the district of Huddersfield, [Huddersfield?]: [Kirklees Community History Service?], [s.d.]

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017

Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993