Batley No. 2 / Bateleia

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design element - patterns - fluted

inscription

Scene Description: 1662

INFORMATION

FontID: 11122BAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Stocks Ln, Batley WF17 8PA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1924 473049
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration
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

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
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
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967