Frickley / Friceleia / Frichehale
Image copyright © Steve F, 2007
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frickley with Clayton All Saints Church. Very isolated from habitation, effectively in the middle of a field."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve F, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2007 by Steve F [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/644833] [accessed 8 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Slater, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by John Slater [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3092003] [accessed 8 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 11173FRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: [lane off (N) Church Field Rd], Frickley, Doncaster DN5 7BX, UK
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located about 12 km NW of Doncaster, on an isolated spot, about halfway between Clayton (W) and Hooton Pagnell (E)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: remnants of 9th-10th building unearthed (2008);
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Frickley [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4608/frickley/] [accessed 8 November 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Morris (1932) notes: "Plain octagonal font -- it is said to be of the 14th century?". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4684907882] notes: "Church. C12 chancel arch, C13 north aisle, tower c1300 otherwise with much C19 alteration. [...] Medieval font: octagonal with broach-stopped base." Not mentioned in Harman & Pevsner (2017).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.56558, -1.2938
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 33′ 56.09″ N, 1° 17′ 38.04″ W
UTM: 30U 612990 5936543
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932