Goldsborough
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13948GOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of the A59, E of Knaresborough
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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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, p. 190