Farnham nr. Ripon

INFORMATION

FontID: 13933FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 4 km N of Knaresborough, 11 km from Ripon
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Glynne (in Butler, 2007) visited the church in 1863, just nine years after its renovation by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and notes a new font inside. The original church was recorded in the Domesday Book, but there is no mention of the original font in this or any later sources.

REFERENCES

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