Micklefield / Old Micklefield
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover - north side
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view of font and cover - south side
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view of basin - interior
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Christ - monogram - IHS - in a circle
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary the Virgin Church, Micklefield, Leeds, West Yorkshire."
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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 in context
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view of font cover
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view of base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12220MIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [originally a chapel-of-ease of Sherburn Parish Church]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: originally one of two chapels-of-ease of Sherburn
Church Address: Great North Rd, Micklefield, Leeds, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M), 4 km E of Garforth, 16 km E of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the earlier (17thC?) church here)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this modern font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 609928 5962262
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.7973, -1.331
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 47′ 50.28″ N, 1° 19′ 51.6″ W
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Location: on the front side of the basin
Inscription Text: "IHS"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]