Birstall No. 4

INFORMATION

FontID: 11092BIR
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
Century and Period: , Medieval
There is no individual entry for this Birstall in the Domesday survey. Cradock (1933) notes: "There are also remains of Holy Water stoups." The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk] notes two stoups next to the old font and gives the measurements [cf. below]

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
Diameter (includes rim): 38 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk]]

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: 2005-10-09 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