Whitwood

INFORMATION

FontID: 13959WHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Philip [original source of the font unknown]
Church Patron Saints: St. Philip
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: A parish of Featherstone, in the diocese of Wakefield (C of E), located 2.5 km SW of Castleford, 8 km WNW of Pontefract
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
The 1865 church interior plan [http://www.churchplansonline.org/show_full_image.asp?resource_id=06070.tif] [accessed 4 November 2008] shows a font in the west end of the nave, by the west wall. The Ecclesiologist (vol. XXVIII, 1867: 286), in its report on 'Church restoration in Yorkshire in 1866', notes that this was a new church "cosecrated December 28th, 1865", but that objects from other older churches were used to furnish it: "The oak pulpit, prayer-desk, lectern, and altar-desk, are of excellent workmanship, and were obtained from S. Saviour's, Leeds. The font also is an old one." [NB: Glynne's notes of his visits to Yorkshire churches (in Butler, 2007) date the visit to Featherstone and its area to May 1868, before the building of St. Philip's]. [NB: Leeds St. Saviour's acquired a new font in 1871; could this be the original font from St. Saviou's? -- cf. Index entry for Leeds No. 4]

REFERENCES

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