Badsworth / Badesuurde / Badesvvrde
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view of church exterior - northeast view
INFORMATION
FontID: 11161BAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [originally from Barnsley Parish Church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Badsworth, Pontefract WF9 1AJ, UK -- Tel.: (01977) 643642
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B6474, E of the A638, 10 km S of Pontefract, 16 km from Wakefield and in its metropolitan borough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgodcross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Badsworth
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Badsworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4614/badsworth/] [accessed 2 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. There is no mention of a font in Glynne's notes of his visit on 6 November 1869 (Butler, 2007). Morris (1932) reports a "Late 14th-century font" here Pevsner (1986 c1967) and Harman & Pevsner, 2017) note: "Font. Big, octagonal, Perp[endicular]. With tracery panels [...] from Barnsley Parish Church".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.62859, -1.301371
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 37′ 42.92″ N, 1° 18′ 4.94″ W
UTM: 30U 612328 5943541
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967