Idle No. 1
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Results: 29 records
B01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: basin sides 1, 3 and 7 have a similar though not identical pattern, consisting of a tracery window in the centre with plant-like motifs on either side
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B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - John the Baptist - with staff - angel holding clothes
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B03: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - fleur-de-lis - 4
Scene Description: one on each of the four narrower sides of the basin
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B04: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin sides
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BBL01: animal - mammal - lion - head - 8?
Scene Description: although some are very worn, the eight appear to be lion heads
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BBL02: design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: the motif resembles a scroll wrapped around a centre twig or similar
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BBU01: design element - patterns - varied
Scene Description: on some sides it appears geometric, crenellation-like; on others, foliage, etc
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BU01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: the lower part appears to have formed arches for the niches of the figures of the stem
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LB01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll - in an Ogee niche
Scene Description: on side 1 of the octagonal base
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LB02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll - in an Ogee niche
Scene Description: on side 3 of the octagonal base
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LB03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll - in an Ogee niche
Scene Description: on side 5 of the octagonal base
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LB04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll - in an Ogee niche
Scene Description: on side 7 of the octagonal base
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LB05: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the octagonal base
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LB06: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base, all around
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of base - side 1
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view of base - side 3
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view of base - side 5
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view of base - side 7
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view of basin - side 1
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view of basin - side 3
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view of basin - side 5
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view of basin - side 7
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - west end
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view of font - side 1
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view of font - side 3
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view of font - side 5
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view of font - side 7
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11224IDL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the northern fringes of the city of Bradford
Font Location in Church: outside, in the grounds, near the church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.
Church Notes: Noted in Pigot's Directory of 1834: "A new church was erected here by aid of the parliamentary commissioners, and was consecrated in the year 1830. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and is a neat edifice of Gothic architecture, containing nearly five hundred free sittings" [transcribed in: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Calverley/Calverley34.html]
Font Notes:
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On the "modern church perched on the hillside" [built in 1830] Mee (1941) notes: "One of its three fonts is from an older building no longer used as a church. Another, elaborately adorned, has a still more intricately carved cover like a star-shaped tower with a spire and flying buttresses." [NB: the older churches/chapels in Idle dated back to 1584 and 1630, but Calverley was the parish church for Idle]. One of these three fonts seen by Mee [cf. supra] is now [2007] outside, on the grounds, being slowly destroyed by the elements; it is a magnificent font carved by an expert hand; the basin is octagonal, but there are four large sides and four smaller ones, as if the latter were but the chamfering of a a square font; three of the large sides are decorated with tracery and plant/tree motifs, but the fourth has a beautifully rendered Baptism of Christ scene; these motifs are framed in varied pattern ornamentation skillfully carried out; the angles of the basin are buttressed, and the underbowl is decorated in fine simple tracery, the bottom of which appears to have used to delineate the niches that house the figures of the base; at the angles of the lower basin are animal heads, apparently all lion heads; the well of the basin is lined with lead; only four of the sides of the base have retained the figures in them: the symbols of the four Evangelists holding scrolls; the other four niches are now empty but it is quite likely there had been other figures in them originally. It is a beautiful font and should not be kept outside where it is desintegrating little by little. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941