Rufforth No. 1

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13990RUF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1224, W of York (dir. Wetherby)
Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
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, p. 352