Beswick / Beswicke

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view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 13077BES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 2 km SE of Kilnwick on the Wolds, 10 km N of Beverley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1871?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne's visit of July 1857 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is small and ridiculous". Octagonal mounted baptismal font probably of the 19th century, the time of the Victorian building of the present church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007