Cantley nr. Doncaster / Canteleia

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11164CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfred
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Church Address: 200 Cantley Ln, Doncaster DN4 6PA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1302 535133
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km ESE of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Straforth -- formerly WRYrks
Font Notes:
There are two entries for this Cantley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE6202/cantley/] [accessed 15 October 2018], one of which reports a cleric and a cleric and a church in it. There is no font mentioned in Glynne's notes of his visit to this church 28 January 1873. Noted in Morris (1932): "Plain octagonal font." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6185001439] notes: "Church. Early C13, C14, C15 tower, restoration 1874 by G G Scott, north aisle added and restoration by Sir Ninian Comper 1892-4. [...] Unpainted Comper font cover to C14 stone font with large column stem and octagonal bowl." Harman & Pevsner (2017) mention a 1904 cover but not the font itself.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 628018 5930258
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.505667, -1.069692
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 30′ 20.4″ N, 1° 4′ 10.89″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1904?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 148