Emley / Amalaie / Amelai / Ameleie / Elmley / Emly / Emmeley

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken 23 June 1990 by Tim Marlow

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 23 June 1990 by Tim Marlow

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2012 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3269690] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: photograph taken 23 June 1990 by Tim Marlow

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 23 June 1990 by Tim Marlow

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view of base

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 23 June 1990 by Tim Marlow

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 23 June 1990 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11153EML

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late?), Restoration

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael

Church Address: Church Street, Emley, West Yorkshire, HD8 9RW, United Kingdom

Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Skelmanthorpe, 8 km W of Wakefield, 7 km ESE of Huddersfield

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Agbrigg

Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? (the ones from the two Domesday-time churches here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Emley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE2413/emley/] [accessed 2 November 2014]; curiously, even though the place is very small, it reports three priests and two churches in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 23 January 1874 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is of debased style." Noted in Morris (1932): "a strange, post-Gothic font, but unfortunately I cannot date it." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Later C17. Cup-shaped, the bowl with big irregular flutings." Harman & Pevsner (2017) change the 'flutings' to 'gadrooning'. There is no charitable way to described this font: it is downright ugly, weird and misshapen; whatever happened to the fonts of the, at least, two Domesday-time churches here?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Marlow for his photographs of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 590551 5941674

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.616038, -1.631121

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 36′ 57.74″ N, 1° 37′ 52.04″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: round base with carved side, eight scroll ribs above with acorn-like finial, but octagonal

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 173
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 242
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 67, 185
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 194