Micklefield / Old Micklefield

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Christ - monogram - IHS - in a circle

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view of base

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary the Virgin Church, Micklefield, Leeds, West Yorkshire."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by Mtaylor848 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary_the_Virgin_Church,_Micklefield_(22nd_March_2014] [accessed 5 March 2021]

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view of font and cover - north side

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view of font and cover - south side

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12220MIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [originally a chapel-of-ease of Sherburn Parish Church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Great North Rd, Micklefield, Leeds, UK

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M), 4 km E of Garforth, 16 km E of Leeds

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this modern font.

Church Notes: originally one of two chapels-of-ease of Sherburn

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Mickleby in the Domesday survey. Baptismal font, probaly of the Victorian period, consisting of a stone octagonal basin raised on a slender round marble column, a circular lower base and a quadrangular plinth; the upper side of the basin is chamfered; only one side of the basin has any decoration, the front, facing east, the altar, and it is decorated with Christ's initials, IHS, inscribed in a circle; there are two levels on the underbowl: the upper is a graded moulding, the lower is decorated with deeply carved foliage; the stem has round mouldings at either end; the lower base is made up of two broad roll mouldings. Pyramidal wooden cover, octagonal, painted and with a Latin cross finial. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier (17thC?) church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.7973, -1.331

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 50.28″ N, 1° 19′ 51.6″ W

UTM: 30U 609928 5962262

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the front side of the basin

Inscription Text: "IHS"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]