Thornton Bradford No. 2 / Thornton in Bradford / Torentune

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 June 2018 by Peter Mullins in http://petermullins.blogspot.com/2018/06/st-james-thornton-bradford.html [accessed 25 October 2019]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: much damaged now

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 June 2018 by Peter Mullins in http://petermullins.blogspot.com/2018/06/st-james-thornton-bradford.html [accessed 25 October 2019]

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inscription

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view of font

Scene Description: [NB: the font is mounted on a wooden paltform with casters so it can be moved around the church as needed].

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Mullins, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 17 June 2018 by Peter Mullins in http://petermullins.blogspot.com/2018/06/st-james-thornton-bradford.html [accessed 25 October 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: [NB: the font is mounted on a wooden paltform with casters so it can be moved around the church as needed].

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jar & Sue Bancroft, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph in Jar & Sue Bancroft's blog [http://bancroftsfromyorkshire.blogspot.com/2010/09/old-bell-chapel-thornton.html] [accessed 25 October 2019[

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11124THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [originally from the Old Church of St. James [aka, Bell Chapel]]
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Thornton Rd, Thornton Bradford BD13 3AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1274 830133
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B6145, part of Bradford since 1899, to the W of the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Date: 1679? / 1687?
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Restoration
There are three entries -one with multiple places- for this Thornton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE1032/thornton/] [accessed 25 October 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted in Mee (1941): "Here are three fonts, one of last century, one dug up in the old churchyard, and one with an incription of 1687 [cf. infra]. This last font is Thornton's great possession, for it is thought that the three most astonishing sisters of all time were baptised at it, their father being the parson there." [NB: the reference is to the Brontë sisters of literary fame: Anne, Charlotte and Emily, and brother Branwell]. Noted in Pevsner (1986): "Font. 1679 [cf. supra]. Small octagonal bowl with inscription. Still entirely in the medieval tradition." [NB: the font is mounted now [June 2018] on a wooden paltform with casters so it can be moved around the church as needed].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.790181, -1.841454
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 24.65″ N, 1° 50′ 29.23″ W
UTM: 30U 576322 5960800

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: [?]AD / LAVACRO / [?] [1679? / 1687?]
Inscription Source: Mee (1941); Pevsner (1986); photograph in Images

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967