Bolton-upon-Dearne / Bodetone / Bodeltone / Bodeltune / Bolton-on-Dearne

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish church of St Andrew the Apostle, Bolton upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, seen from the east from Angel Street".
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wood, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4015650] [accessed 12 October 2018]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13917BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church? [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 3 High St, Bolton upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 8LW, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B6098, SE the A645-A6195 crossroads, ESE of Brampton, 12 km NNE of Rotherham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth
Additional Comments: re-cycled font / disused font (a font used as planter "a fern-pot" / flower-pot; was it MUST USE) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Bolton [uponn Dearne] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4502/bolton-upon-dearne/] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne notes in his 5 December 1862 visit (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl on a stem of like form." The Ecclesiologist (vol. XXVIII, 1867: 343), in its 'Church restoration in Yorkshire' list of horrors, reports that the parson from Bolton-on-Dearne, "being his own architect, among other things he broke up what carved work remained in his church, and turned his font into a fern-pot." Kelly's Directory of the WRYrks for 1881, however, reports: "the church contains a few monuments and a font, recently restored" [quoted in https://forebears.io/england/yorkshire/bolton-upon-dearne [accessed 12 October 2018]]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4558802528] notes: "Saxon nave incorporating arcade c1200, C14 chancel and north aisle, C15-C16 tower, C19 north chapel and vestry with C20 addition"; the entry here does not mention the font or the discarded bowl later used as planter, nor does the entry in the CRSBI (2018) say anything about it. Harman & Pevsner (2017) do not mention a font in their entry for this church either. [NB: is the font reported as restored in 1881 [cf. supra] still in use in this church? -- emailed the vicar contact 12 Oct 2018 requesting corroboration + photo]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 611726 5931407
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5197, -1.31482
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 31′ 10.92″ N, 1° 18′ 53.35″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 104
  • Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 135-136