Kildwick / Kildwick-in-Craven

There is a 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15548 - Item number: 53]. Noted in Glynne's 24 November 1860 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is Perpendicular and octagonal, with the monogram and emblems of the crucifixion, but a round moulding round the base indicates an earlier period." Noted in Morris (1932) as one of two late examples, the other at Waddington, in the same county, of fonts decorated with the Instruments of the Passion: "Late octagonal font, with the instruments of the Passion; M, for the Virgin; and the Sacred Initials" [IHS?]. Mee (1941) notes: "The old font is enriched with lettering and symbols of the Passion, and its huge cover, like a spire, has tracery and 24 grotesques." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with the Instruments of the Passion." [NB: at a recent Parish Council meeting [25 October 2004] the Vicar of St. Andrew's, the Rev. Robin Figg and architect Mr. Nick Rank, unveiled a set of plans for the refurbishing of the church; among these plans was to "reposition the font one bay further east; enlarge the gathering space [...] These were initial consultation meetings and further meetings wil be held with the local community and the various amenity societies such as English Heritage and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings." -- source: www.kildwick.org.uk/news]. [We are grateful to Rev. Robin Figg for the photograph of this font]