Rufforth No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 13990RUF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the B1224, W of York (dir. Wetherby)
Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
In the notes from his visit of 22 January 1866 (in Butler, 2007) Glynne described the church itself as "much modernised, and scarcely worth notice", and the font inside this church as "bad and very small". Butler (ibid.) adds that this building was "wholly rebuilt in 1894-5", with some of the Norman work retained and re-used; there is however no mention of the whereabouts of the old font. [cf. Index entry for Rufforth No. 2 for the new Victorian font now in use]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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