Wentbridge
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BBU01: inscription
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12170WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1878?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (late?), Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S side, just W of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Jacksons Lane, Wentbridge, West Yorkshire, WF8 3JH, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1, 7 km SSE of Pontefract, 17 km from Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Wakefield
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font probably dating from the date of the church itself, ca. 1878; the design is a throw-back to the type consisting of an outer tetrafoil basin resting on a cluster of four colonnettes. Lead lined round basin well. Wooden cover, flat and round.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: carved around the upper basin side
Inscription Text: "SVFFER LITTLE CHILDREN [...] OF HEAVEN"
Inscription Notes: [cf. Images area]
Inscription Source: [cf. Images area]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]