Ackworth No. 1 / Acevvurde / Ackworth Moor Top
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the present church is chiefly mid-19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Cuthbert,_Ackworth_(16864888142).jpg] [accessed 23 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: the present church is chiefly mid-19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Cuthbert,_Ackworth_(16630581487).jpg] [accessed 23 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11126ACK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Font Location in Church: [destroyed]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: Cross Hill, Ackworth, Pontefract WF7 7EJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1977 599979
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A638, 13 km ESE of Wakefield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgodcross
Additional Comments: destroyed font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [High and Low] Ackworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/high-and-low-ackworth/] [accessed 23 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Bond (1908), et al., note that an inscription on the new 17th-century font states that the font is newly built in 1663 to replace the destruction by the bile of the fanatics, bile which Bond annotates as "the splenetic choler" ["Baptisterium bili phanaticorum diruptum denuo erectum..."] [NB: the destroyed font is probably different from a third font, a basin of perhaps the 12th-century, now placed beneath the tower and listed in this Index as Ackworth No. 3]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 610011 5946687
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.657349, -1.335289
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 39′ 26.45″ N, 1° 20′ 7.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1927, [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~petyt/ack1927.htm]