Birdforth
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Birdforth. This church is cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. Although no longer needed for regular worship it remains a consecrated building."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Rogers, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2009 by David Rogers [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1522026] [accessed 4 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4225] [accessed 4 October 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11054BIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary / Birdforth Old Chapel [redundant since 1975]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Birdforth, York YO61 4NW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, 3-4 km W of Coxwold, 5-6 km SE of Thirsk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Wapentake of Birdforth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the belfry
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to David Ross & Britain Express Ltd for the photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 16th, 17th, 18th 19thC; redundant since November 1975; now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Birdforth in the Domesday survey. The entry for the Coxwold parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The building evidently dates from the 12th century, but has been partly rebuilt in later times [...] The font has an ancient cylindrical bowl on a modern base." Pevsner (1985) mentions only a "Font cover. Of ogee-shaped ribs, probably Jacobean." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4863175789] notes: "Redundant church. C12, C16-C17, C18 and C19. [...] C12 circular tub font on renewed base with probably C17 cover having ogee-shaped ribs".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1756, -1.2565
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 10′ 32.16″ N, 1° 15′ 23.4″ W
UTM: 30U 613799 6004463
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-17th century? Jacobean?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-10-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bonnier, Ann Catherine, Kumla kyrkor, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1976
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966