Long Preston / Prestune

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view of canopy

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Font Canopy at St Mary's Church [...] bears the date 1726, and the initials of the churchwardens at the time."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Nave and Chancel at St Mary's Church. The present church dates from the late 14th or early 15th century. Note the leaning columns on the right hand side of the nave!"

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Font at St Mary's Long Preston. The carved stone font is late Saxon or early Norman." [NB: Pevsner's comment on its date "probably Norman, but whether early or Later, or indeed pre-Norman, it seems impossible to say" is apprpriate; one other source [cf. FontNotes] states that it is made of sandstone and has a zig-zag.moulding on it [where?]; there is a patched hole noticesble about 2/3 up the left side; was the font used as a garden planter? a water-trough?]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11186PRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church St, Long Preston, Skipton BD23 4NJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1729 851511
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A65, 7-8 km S of Settle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Craven
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: a church in Prestune [Long Preston] is mentioned in the Domesday survey
There is a multiple entry that includes [Long] Preston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD8358/long-preston/] [accessed 23 September 2020]; it mentions a church in it.. A baptismal font here is noted in Glynne's August 1846 (?) visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is cased in wood and has a high Jacobean wood cover, as at Skipton" [NB: Butler's (ibid.) later annotation of Glynne reads: "The font is no longer cased in wood; the cover carries the date 1726 though the style is seventeenth-century." Noted in Morris (1932): "Very rude hexagonal font, with cover dated 1726." Mee (1941) has: "The crude six-sided Norman font has a cover of 1726 like a tower." [NB: unlikely Norman dating for the font itself -- did Mee transfer the shape of the cover or of the base to the font?]. Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Circular, with very tall, tapering bowl. The date probably Norman, but whether early or Later, or indeed pre-Norman, it seems impossible to say. Font cover. An interesting piece, in so far as it is Jacobean in character yet dated as late as 1726. Hexagonal, two tiers, and crocketed spire. The upper tier with simple openwork foliage." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD8371758092] notes: "Parish church. Late C14/early C15 with C19 and C20 alterations. [...] Romanesque sandstone font with zig-zag moulding; 1726 oak canopy."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.0191, -2.25
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 1′ 8.76″ N, 2° 15′ 0″ W
UTM: 30U 549139 5985907

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1726
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967