Ilkley No. 1 / Ilecliue / Illicleia

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Scene Description: on the three early crosses stored inside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2073319] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 May 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 December 2014 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/3775463481] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 December 2014 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/15852374739] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of church interior - cross - 3

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Ilkley Crosses. Currently housed inside the parish church these fascinating and ancient weathered crosses with intricate carving date back to the eighth and ninth centuries".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2015 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4663391] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2073339] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the three early crosses are discernible at the far back, in the tower space

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2074053] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 May 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the stone counterweight of the cover pulley is visible by the window on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2073421] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 May 2009 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11178ILK

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 4 Church St, Ilkley LS29 9DS, UK -- Tel.: +44 1943 816035

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A65, 10 km WNW of Otley, about 15 km from Skipton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Skyrack -- formerly ERYrks

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for the photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Ilkley [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1147/ilkley/] [accesed 30 October 2018], each of which reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 9 May 1862 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is a new one, octagonal and plain." Morris (1932) notes a Jacobean font cover in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing 101133506] notes: "Parish church in mainly Tudor-Gothic style, with little distinction between late-medieval and C19 work. [...] The massive undecorated medieval tub font has chamfered corners and stands on a C19 pedestal." The Wharfedale's Community on the Web site has an article on Ilkley by Fraser Irwin, which reads: "While the font cover is original, the font is not. When the church was undergoing refurbishment during the Victorian era, the original font was taken to the Vicarage on Wells Road. Where it became forgotten. A new font, the present one, was carved as a replacement" [source: www.ilkley.org/iguide/ramblerumble.htm]. Up-to-date information is provided in the Parish web site and in the photograph taken in June 2009 by Colin Smith for BSI: the old font has been re-instated and is in use again. The Parish site gives the date of the cover as 1633 and notes "the weighted pulley which enables the cover -which also acts as a soundboard- to be lifted easily to reveal the lead-lined bowl into which the water is poured". The font itself consists of an [now?] irregular polygonal basin made of local stone that has probably lost part of the carving on the sides; at least one of the sides retains what appears to be the trace of a round arch; it is raised on a similarly-shaped base, probably modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.9265, -1.8242

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 55′ 35.4″ N, 1° 49′ 27.12″ W

UTM: 30U 577207 5975984

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1633-1634? / Jacobean / 17th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; weighted 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