Birstall No. 1

Main image for Birstall No. 1

Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5110899] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth

two bands of, all around
Scene Description: two bands of, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5110899] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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design element - motifs - spur - 4

at 90-degree angles
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5110899] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of basin

the illustration was published by Cradock in 1933 but the photograph may have been earlier
Scene Description: the illustration was published by Cradock in 1933 but the photograph may have been earlier
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a Illustration in Cradock (1933: pl. 3)
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view of basin - east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of basin - east side - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of basin - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of basin - northeast side - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of basin - rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of basin - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Saint Peter's Church, Kirkgate, Birstall. Saint Peter's Church, Kirkgate, Birstall. The present building is the fourth stone church to occupy the site. The first stone church was built around 1100 AD and the lower part of the tower is all that remains of that building today. It was extended between 1320 and 1390. From that period the church has a Norman font, holy water stoops, part of a grave slab and the tombstones of three Knights Hospitallers. In 1490 the church was rebuilt again. There were various changes and additions until the present church was built between 1865 and 1870."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Peter's Church, Kirkgate, Birstall. Saint Peter's Church, Kirkgate, Birstall. The present building is the fourth stone church to occupy the site. The first stone church was built around 1100 AD and the lower part of the tower is all that remains of that building today. It was extended between 1320 and 1390. From that period the church has a Norman font, holy water stoops, part of a grave slab and the tombstones of three Knights Hospitallers. In 1490 the church was rebuilt again. There were various changes and additions until the present church was built between 1865 and 1870."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5111434] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2018 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5928469] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of font - west side - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
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view of font and cover in context

the old font and its later cover in the context of the sort-of-cemetery of church remains at Birstall St Peter's -- compare this photograph , taken 6 September 2016, with the one in the CRSBI taken in 2000
Scene Description: the old font and its later cover in the context of the sort-of-cemetery of church remains at Birstall St Peter's -- compare this photograph , taken 6 September 2016, with the one in the CRSBI taken in 2000
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5110899] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of font and cover in context

the old font and its later cover in the context of the sort-of-cemetery of church remains at Birstall St Peter's
Scene Description: the old font and its later cover in the context of the sort-of-cemetery of church remains at Birstall St Peter's
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5110899] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of font in context

this modern wooden font appears to be in use at Bristall St Peter's; there is another, also modern, perhaps also in use
Scene Description: this modern wooden font appears to be in use at Bristall St Peter's; there is another, also modern, perhaps also in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5110931] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of font in context

this modern font is located inside Bristall St Peter's, near the sort-of-cemetery of old church remains that includes a medieval font
Scene Description: this modern font is located inside Bristall St Peter's, near the sort-of-cemetery of old church remains that includes a medieval font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Stevenson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2016 by Mark Stevenson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5111351] [accessed 10 October 2018]
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view of font in context

the sort-of-cemetery of old church remains as it was in the CRSBI visit of 1 May 2000
Scene Description: the sort-of-cemetery of old church remains as it was in the CRSBI visit of 1 May 2000
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood [for the photograph, John McElheran]
Image Source: B&W digital image taken 1 May 2000 by John McEtheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/birst/] [accessed 1 May 2005]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 11089BIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [earlier St. Peter & St. Paul]
Church Location: Birstall, Batley WF17 9HN, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A64, S of Potterton, ENE of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Kirkby Malham [No. 1], about 50 km away, also in Yorkshire
Church Notes: church founded ca. 1100; modified later-12th, 15th, 19th, 20thC
Font Notes:
There is no individual entry for this Birstall in the Domesday survey. Cradock (1933) notes: "In 1899 the two halves of the circular basin of a plain Norman Font were found in an adjoining orchard, which are now preserved in the Church." Cradock (Ibid.) provides an illustration of this font in which a wedge has been cut in the upper rim, much in the way it is done in farm troughs. The font is a cylindrical basin with a plain upper part but, as is the case with the font at Kirkby Malham [located about 50 km from this location], the lower end of the basin is decorated with a double moulding and two rows of saw-tooth motif, all around; the lower end has four spurs, at 90-degree angles, and becomes square just beneath them. Ryder (1993) reports a "12th-century font bowl" here. Harman & Pevsner (2017) report a "FONT BOWL. Said to be C12" in the 'museum', i.e., an open storage of old church remains inside the church. The font is described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018). [cf. Index entry for Birstall No. 2 for a 16th-century font, and for Birstall Nos. 3-4 for two possible holy-water stoups, also in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.831389, -1.392472
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 49′ 53″ N, 1° 23′ 32.9″ W
UTM: 30U 605794 5965960

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (round)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lined
Rim Thickness: 8.25 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47.5 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI, 2000]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2005-10-08 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cradock, H.C., A History of the ancient Parish of Birstall, Yorkshire, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1933
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