Hemsworth / Hamelesuurde

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13953HEM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Station Rd, Hemsworth, Pontefract WF9 4JW, UK -- Tel.: +44 1977 610507
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B6422, 9 km S of Pontefract, 11 km from Wakefield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Stairncross -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
There is an entry for Hemsworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4213/hemsworth/] [accessed 29 October 2018] but ie mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's notes of his 17 January 1860 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) read: "The font is modern." Fowler (1867) mentions "a very elaborate font […] made at this time [i.e., 1841] by the village mason, from a design of his own, and presented to the church; that in use before being only a little stone dish with a wooden cover. Nothing seems to be known of the original one, but possibly a search among the neighbouring pigsties might discover it." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4288613262] notes: "Parish church. Mostly 1867 by J. L. Pearson (2nd rebuilding), but with some medieval fabric [...] tapered octagonal tub font." No font mentioned in Harman & Pevsner (2017). [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to late-medieval times, but we have no information on its original font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.6141, -1.354
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 36′ 50.76″ N, 1° 21′ 14.4″ W
UTM: 30U 608886 5941847

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blight, John Thomas, Churches of West Cornwall, with notes of antiquities of the district, Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1885
Fowler, James, "The vicissitudes of Hemsworth Church, Yorkshire", XXVIII, The Ecclesiologist, 1867, pp. 265-271; r["References"]