Tadcaster

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11049TAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes below]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 16 km from York
Font Notes:
Noted in Glynne's visit to this church before 1840 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a plain octagon." Described identically in Speight (1883), who further mentions that "There is a beautiful font placed on the ground-floor of the tower, which was presented by John C.F. Ramsden, Esq. in 1877, in memory of his father, Henry J. Ramsden, late of Oxton Hall." [NB: this church goes back to Norman times but it is unlikely that the 'old' font would be of that date; it more likely belongs to one of the refurbishings of the church in the late-14th or late-15th centuries] [NB: the later font is not listed in this Index on account of its late date]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
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. 400
  • Speight, Harry, Tadcaster & environs, [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1883, [www.oldtykes.co.uk/tadcaster.htm] [accessed 24 June 2005]