Giggleswick

INFORMATION

FontID: 11174GIG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Alkelda
Church Patron Saints: St. Alkelda [aka Athilda]
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 2 km W of Settle, 12 km from Kirby Lonsdale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Noted in Glynne's 17 August 1846 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a small octagonal bowl with a fine lofty Gothic wood cover suspended with a pulley, the gift of Reverend [Rowland] Ingram, Vicar, 1820 [recte 1840]." Smith (1881) notes the inscription on the font cover: "Antiquum Infra Fontum Posuit Ornavit Rowland Ingram, M.A., Vicarius. Anno Dom. M.DCCXV." Noted in Morris (1932): "Plain font -- Dec[orated] or Perp[endicular]. At W of nave."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: "Antiquum Infra Fontum Posuit Ornavit Rowland Ingram, M.A., Vicarius. Anno Dom. M.DCCXV."
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotoes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1715? / ca. 1820/1840?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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
Smith, William, Old Yorkshire, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1881