Goldsborough

INFORMATION

FontID: 13948GOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located S of the A59, E of Knaresborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Font Notes:
Noted in Glynne's 21 April 1864 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is new; bowl octagonal, on central stem, surrounded by marble shafts." [NB: the present font dates probably from the 1859 restoration by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott; the south door shows some nice Norman beaked-head work, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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