Bracewell

INFORMATION

FontID: 13918BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 15 km from Skipton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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