Hartshead No. 1 / Horteseve / Herteshevet

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view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church, w:Hartshead, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It has a 12th century chancel arch, south door and west tower. The rest is the result of heavy renovation in Neo Gothic and Arts and Crafts style by William Swinden Barber in 1881."
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the two fonts in this church [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 November 2010 by Rita Wood, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5582/] [accessed 29 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11157HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Hartshead, Liversedge WF15 8EU , UK -- Tel.: (01274) 873024
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B6119, 6 km W of Dewsbury, 8-10 km from Wakefield
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [base only], Medieval / composite
Church Notes: present church is originally 12thC, a late-19thC re-building
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. 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 entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The nave doorway and the chancel arch have Romanesque sculpture. 12thc stone may be reused in the modern font, and there is an old font, but neither of these has sculpture. [...] There are two fonts, one modern and in use, and a second, bowl only with '1662' carved on it. [...] Pobjoy and Pobjoy (1972, 19) say that the old font basin, dated 1662 and located under the tower, is made from a Norman pillar base. However, no tooling is obvious; they suggest the base of the original font survives as part of the support for the current font. It is possible the Victorian restorers would have used token pieces of old work in their new font, but there is no early sculpture and little tooling." [NB: the CRSBI entry cites H. N. Pobjoy and M. Pobjoy, The Story of the Ancient Parish of Hartshead cum Clifton (Driffield, 1972)]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE1790023310] notes: "Church. Norman tower, south doorway and chancel arch. The rest of the church is Neo-Norman of 1881. [...] Font of 1881 on Norman base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.70622, -1.730582
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 42′ 22.39″ N, 1° 43′ 50.09″ W
UTM: 30U 583792 5951585
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: mounted font
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-10-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932