Kirkby Malzeard

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11181MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Kirkby Malzeard
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon HG4 3RT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1765 650369
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NW of Ripon and the A61
Additional Comments: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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, [in Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Kirkbymalzeard/Kirkbymalzeard68.html] [accessed 10 June 2007]
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 250
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 296