Bracewell

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13918BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km from Skipton
Font Notes:
Noted by Glynne in his 1 March 1860 visit (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a circular font on a block." Noted in A Church Near You site [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/bracewell-st-michael/] [accessed 28 October 2008] : "Originally built in 1143 to serve as a chantry chapel for the Tempest family, St Michael's became the parish church in 1153 […] The church retains its Jacobean pulpit and font cover and some interesting fragments of mediaeval glass as well as a 'Leper's Peep', norman chancel arch and doorway arch". [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean? / 17th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 111