Batley No. 2 / Bateleia

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11122BAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Stocks Ln, Batley WF17 8PA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1924 473049
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the M62, 2 km N of Dewsbury, 11 km SW of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Batley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2424/batley/] [accessed 3 October 2018]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's visit of 2 December 1858 (in Butler, 2007): "The font bears the date 1660" [the footnote by Butler corrects the date to 1662]. Michael Sheard's Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York [...] (Worksop, 1894): 24-25, notes: "The font came in for a share of Puritanical aversion, and was cast out. They considered anything that would hold water good enough for the baptismal service, and placed it near the pulpit, a rule still observed by Nonconformists. In a few churches, {as at Colton, Lancashire) it has not been replaced in its original position at the west end. [...] The old font in Batley Church being destroyed the present one was placed in its proper position at the Restoration in 1662 as shown by the date upon it." Morris (1932) notes it as a font of the Restoration period dated by an inscription to 1662. Pevsner (1986 c1967) and Harman & Pevsner (2017) write: "Font. 1662. Crude chalice shape. The bowl with raised flutings along the eight edges." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2413324456] reports an "8 sided, ribbed font dated 1662" in it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 590085 5952753
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.715675, -1.634935
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 42′ 56.43″ N, 1° 38′ 5.77″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: [1662]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 85
  • Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 118
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 101
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 44, 96