Tockwith

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12957TOC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Epiphany
Church Patron Saints: The Epiphany
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, NE of Wetherby, 12 km N of Tadcaster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the E end, N transept
Century and Period: 19th century, Modern
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Noted in Bulmer's Directory of North Yorkshire of 1890: "A beautiful marble font stands at the north-east corner of the nave". The font is egg-cup shaped and made of a rust-veined white-ish marble, with a moulded base, otherwise plain, and raised on a round plinth. Woden cover, flat and round, probably contemporary with the font, of the 19th century. [NB: no record of an earlier church here].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric - mounted -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890