Kirkheaton / Heptone

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design element - motifs - panel - 7

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2016 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the old font had been used for centuries as an animal trough

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the late-Victorian font has a lined inner basin

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: this view of the old basin shows its obvious irregularity

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2008 by Betty Longbottom [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889742] [accessed 9 September 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John's Church, Kirkheaton. An ancient foundation, but largely rebuilt in 1887-8. Inside there are fragments of an Anglo-Saxon cross with interlace decoration and a stone with a runic inscription. The modern gateway echoes the porch, although in a different style."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2005 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/97593] [accessed 9 September 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the late-Victorian font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the late-Victorian font seen from the doorway

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font now re-installed in the church, at the west end of the nave

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11217KIR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Church Ln, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield HD5 0BH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1484 531449

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A42, 5 km ENE of Huddersfield, 16 from Wakefield

Historical Region: Hundred of Agbrigg -- West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle, W end

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of the two fonts here

Church Notes: first church here probably 8th or 9thC; present church 13th-14thC, re-built 1880s;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Kirk]Heaton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1817/kirkheaton/] [accessed 18 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 18 January 1854 notes of his visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) read: "The font [is] modern" [NB: Glynne (ibid.) mentions the new nave walls erected in 1823, and Butler (ibid.) adds that there was "a minor restoration by B. Ferrey in 1859", and that considerable areas of the church were rebuilt in 1886-7. Obviously the old font was still at a nearby farm serving as trough. Mee (1941) notes: "there is is [...] a beautiful modern font, though it has a massive Norman font with seven sides to keep it company." Pevsner (1967) writes: "Font. Large, octagonal, with minimum panel decoration. What may the date be?" The entry for this church in Historic England reports only the modern font: "Marble font, probably late C19, well carved with clustered pedestal and angels supporting 8-sided bowl", obviously referring to the modern font. The older heptagonal, consists of a much damaged basin on a splaying pedestal of the same shape; it is not lined but has a centre drain; it apparently served as animal-feeding trough nearby for several centuries before it was returned to the church; unlikely Norman but possbly of the 13th-14th century re-building of the earlier church. The late-Victorian font is made of pinkish veined marble; itconsists of an octagonal basin decorated with quatrefoils with inscribed motifs and symbols, the panel framed in colonnettes with capitals and bases; cherubs at the corners of the underbowl; octagonal pedestal base of clustered colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases; the inner basin lined; raised of a stone plinth, octagonal and plain. Plain round and flat cover. Ryder (1993) mentions "a simple font of late 11th or early twelfth-century date" here. The entry for Kirkheaton in Harman & Pevsner (2017) mentions two fonts: one Norman, the other late-19th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.6514, -1.731

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 5.04″ N, 1° 43′ 51.6″ W

UTM: 30U 583874 5945486

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: heptagonal [mounted]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993