Bramhope No. 1 / Bramhop

Results: 2 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11150BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1673
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles, Bramhope
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the main entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Church Hill, Bramhope, Leeds LS16 9BA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7826 567539
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A660, 14 km N of Leeds city centre
Historical Region: Hundred of Skyrack [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disused font: no longer used for baptisms [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Bramhope [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE2443/bramhope/] [accessed 20 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Morris (1932) notes it as a "post-Restoration font, dated 1673. The 'Guide to St Giles Church' [www.bramhope.org] notes the following: "Near the entrance the stone font is in the customary position in English churches. A member of the congregation crafted its wooden cover. Today Baptisms are conducted during a Sunday service, in front of the whole congregation, who welcome the child or adult into the church family and so the portable oak font is used. On this font you will see a carved mouse, the trade mark of Robert Thompson of Kilburn." [cf. Index entry for Branhope No. 2 for the portable oak font]. Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Hexagonal dated 1673."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 591400 5971389
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.8829, -1.6095
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 52′ 58.44″ N, 1° 36′ 34.2″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: [1673]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 135
  • Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, p. 144