Great Mitton / Mitton
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Alexander P. Kapp [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/417797] [accessed 12 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 11216MIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Hallows [aka St. Michael's]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints [dedicated later to St. Michael, and later still reverted to All Hallows]
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located near the Lancashire border, 5 km from Clitheroe (Lancs.)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W gallery
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Glynne's 10 April 1861 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a plain octagon." Tyack (1899), in his chapter on fonts, notes: "At Coleshill and Mitton we find a crucifix". [NB: was he referring to another font?] Noted in Mee (1941): "The fine Norman font has a cover of 1593". Pevsner (1986 c1967) does not mention the font: "Font cover. Elizabethan, dated 1593." The baptismal font consists of a plain octagonal basin with vertical sides; flat underbowl without a chamfer; short and broad octagonal stem, also plain; squat octagonal-to-square lower base. The wooden cover (oak?) is an octagonal pyramid with raised arrises, the panels in between carved with foliage and patterns; ball finial.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1593 / Elizabethan
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: yes; pulley from the west gallery
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967
Tyack, George Smith, Lore and legend of the English Church, London: W. Andrews, 1899