Bramhope No. 1

Results: 2 records

B01: inscription

Scene Description: 1662

B01: inscription

Scene Description: 1673

INFORMATION

FontID: 11150BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located near Dewsbury, in the Wakefield district
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the main entrance
Date: 1673
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Restoration
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."

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
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872