Kirkby Malzeard

Results: 3 records

B01: animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: animal - bird

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: coat of arms - See of York

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11181MAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NW of Ripon
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in Glynne's 17 August 1868 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font, now in the chancel, seems to be of debased character, the bowl octagonal with emblems coarsely sculptured, serpents, birds, etc., and on the stem the arms of the See of York." The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland of 1868 notes: "In the interior [of the church] is an ancient stone font". Morris (1932) writes: "Late octagonal font, with coarsely-carved panels, a Paschal Lamb, a Dove, a serpent, the Keys of St Peter, a (?) coat-of-arms with a crescent for difference, a Maltese cross, I.H.S. twice repeated, etc." [NB: we have no other information on the earlier font(s) of this church -- the church, parts of which date back to the 12th century, underwent major renovations in the late 19th century and suffered a damaging fire in 1908]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
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