Farnham nr. Ripon

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13933FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km N of Knaresborough, 11 km from Ripon
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, p. 175