Nidd / Nit
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11190NID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paul and St. Margaret, Nidd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul & St. Margaret
Church Address: Town Street, Nidd, N.Yorks, HG3 3BN, United kigdom
Site Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Ripley, about 35 km from York
Historical Region: Hundred of Burghshire [in Domesday] -- formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple entry fthat includes Nidd [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3060/nidd/] [accessed 21 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Font noted in Morris (1932): "The circular font is probably Norm[an.]" Mee (1941) has: "round Norman font."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 268
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 365