Hartshead No. 2 / Horteseve / Herteshevet
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inscription
Scene Description: 1662
view of basin in context
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11149HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid) [basin only] [composite font], Baroque [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Lane, Hartshead, Liversedge WF15 8EU , UK -- Tel.: (01274) 873024
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B6119, 6 km W of Dewsbury, 8-10 km from Wakefield
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hartshead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1822/hartshead/] [accessed 29 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 4 May 1859 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font bears the date 1662 and has a wooden cover." Morris (1932) notes: "(1) Modern font on ancient base -- probably Norm[an]. (2) On floor close at hand -- bowl of Restoration font, dated 1662" [the latter must be the font that Glynne had seen in place in 1859]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 583792 5951585
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.70622, -1.730582
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 42′ 22.39″ N, 1° 43′ 50.09″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: 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. 207
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 256