Kirkthorpe
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2005 by Ian Russell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/374520] [ accessed 30 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11183KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Kirkthorpe Lane, Wakefield WF1 5SZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7714 986462
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located of (E) the A6194 and the A61, in the parish of Warmfield, 5 km E of Wakefield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12th? 14thC? church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Kirkthorpe found in the Domesday survey. Morris (1932) notes: "Perp[endicular] font." Pevsner (1986 c1967), however, writes: "A perfectly plain octagonal, cup-shaped font, dated 1718." The entry for this church in Historic England [Church. C14 tower, body of church rebuilt c1875, tower parapet renewed c1904.] notes: "Church. C14 tower, body of church rebuilt c1875, tower parapet renewed c1904. [...] Octagonal cup-shaped font dated 1718." Ryder (1993) writes of 12th-century details and of typically Norman masonry, but there is no medieval font in this church. Harman & Pevsner (2017) note a plain octagonal cup-shaped font of 1718.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 602089 5949473
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.68399, -1.4542
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 41′ 2.36″ N, 1° 27′ 15.12″ W
REFERENCES
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 376
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 322
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 294
- Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 173