Kirkby Wharfe / Chirchebi / Kirkby Wharf
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
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Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Henderson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2002 by Bill Henderson [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/231886] [accessed 18 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - west end - looking southwest
Scene Description: the 19th-century font at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: the two Norman tubs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/2129/] [accessed 14 November 2018 -- access blocked on 14 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11182WHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: given the name of the village, there must have been a church in it early on; present church chiefly 14thC re-building
Church Address: Kirkby Wharfe, Tadcaster LS24 9DD, UK -- Tel.: 01937 834016
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1223, E of the A162, 3 km S of Tadcaster, 20 km from York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Barkston -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (reported in the church as late as 1941, but no longer there?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Kirkby [Wharfe] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5041/kirkby-wharfe/] [accessed 14 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1848) informs: "The church is an ancient structure, in the early Norman style, with a tower of later date". Noted in Morris (1932): "Plain, circular, Norm[an] font." Mee (1941) notes a Norman font in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5060841071] notes; "Church. Late C12, with C13 and C14 additions and alterations, and extensive rebuilding to exterior of 1860 for Lord Londesborough. [...] Norman tub font." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) reports "There are three in the church, two of which are Norman." [NB: access to this source blocked at this time 14 November 2018]. The baptismal font in use currently at St. John's is not the Norman one but a 19th-century replacement: it consists of a aquare-top basin with deepply-carved trefoil archeads in the style of the 13th- and 14th-century fonts; raised on a broad central shaft and four slender colonnettes, the latter in the usual coloured marble favoured by the Victorians. The wooden font cover is round and flat, decorated with metal and provided with a ring handle. The 19th-century font has an inscription done on a brass plate that runs along the four sides of the upper surface of the basin; it reads: "IN PIAM MEMORIAM JOANNIS / SHILLETO DE VLLESKELF ARMIGERI / HOC LAVACRVM POSVERVNT SVPERSTITES / [...] MDCCCLVII"] Harman & Pevsner (2017) note: "Font.(old) Plain cylinder, Norman."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 616278 5969796
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.86361, -1.2318
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 51′ 49″ N, 1° 13′ 54.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, [n.d.].
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 369
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1833, [in the 1848 ed. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51082] [accessed 18 April 2009]
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 213
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 298