Beeston / Beeston nr. Leeds / Bestone

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/PhotoFrames/WRY/LeedsBeestonStMary_1.html] [accessed 10 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11144BEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Wilfrid
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Town Street, Beeston, West Yorkshire, LS11 8RD
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: The church is located in Town Street, Beeston, about 3 km from the centre of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ripon & Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1660?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photograph of this church
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Beeston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2830/beeston/] [accessed 16 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's visit of 21 October 1867 (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is samll and debased." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. No doubt of the 1660s. Octagonal bowl with a square and an inscribed circle in each panel." Ryder (1993) reports a 7th-century font here.. [NB: Pevsner (ibid.) notes the stones of an interior arch which date the original church to Norman times; we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.771855, -1.566033
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 46′ 18.68″ N, 1° 33′ 57.72″ W
UTM: 30U 594506 5959093

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993