Hampsthwaite

INFORMATION

FontID: 11176HAM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket

Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Ripley, 13 km from Ripon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

There is no mention of a font in Noted in Glynne's 20 April 1864 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007). Noted in Morris (1932): "Old, bowl-shaped, circular font -- probably Norman."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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