South Kirkby
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2016 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/26686472554] [accessed 30 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 14005KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 52 Park Estate, South Kirkby, Pontefract WF9 3PA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1977 642795
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B6422, 13 km from Pontefract
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Century and Period: 11th century / 13th - 15th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [South] Kirkby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4511/south-kirkby/] [accessed 30 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 17 January 1860 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "a modern font".
The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4529811068] notes: "Parish church. C13 and C15; restored"; no font mentioned in it. [NB: the building is chiefly 15th-century, with parts as far back perhaps as the 11th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.59429, -1.3161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 35′ 39.44″ N, 1° 18′ 57.96″ W
UTM: 30U 611445 5939702
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007