Middlesmoor
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11230MID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [altered font?], Norman[altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Chad, Middlesmoor
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Church Address: Ivy House Farm, Middlesmoor, Harrogate HG3 5ST, United Kingdom
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A1(M), about 20 km WNW of Ripon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales
Additional Comments: recycled font: Norman font recarved later
Font Notes:
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Noted in Speight (1906). Mee (1941) notes: "the font is Norman, with later carving". The entry for this church in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12942] [accessed 22 June 2025] notes: "The font presently stands under the tower, having been moved from the W end of the nave. The rim is a modern addition; below that, the bowl, the stem and its base seem to be integral; they are in a light grey sandstone perhaps comparable to that used for the font at Long Preston or Horton-in-Ribblesdale. A darker stone forms the circular plinth. The sides of the bowl have small roundels carved in modern times with the four evangelists" and give the dimensions of the font in its present [6 June 2010] state". [NB: for the notes referent to this font in H. Speight, Upper Nidderdale, with the forest of Knaresborough, London 1906, 344-5, see the CRSBI entry]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm* [across modern rim]
Basin Depth: 38 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 111 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 258