Leathley
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Alexander F. Kapp, 2008 [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/723207] [accessed 12 November 2008]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Alexander F. Kapp, 2008 [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/723207] [accessed 12 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 13976LEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Otley, 18 km from Leeds
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Glynne's 16 August 1868 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) with a laconic: "The font modern." The present font at Leathley St. Oswald's is modern, octagonal and made of wood; it is decorated with mouldings at the upper basin sides, then tapering to a ring moulding constraining its middle, from which splays forming the base. The cover is also wooden, a round platform with four ribs around a central pivot; ball finial. [NB: the church dates back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007