Broughton / Braoughton-in-Airedale / Broctune / Broughton, Craven, nr. Skipton / Broughton-in-Airedale

PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

Results: 7 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Rita Wood, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3335/] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - southeast side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Rita Wood, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3335/] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Rita Wood, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3335/] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: present church 12thC; much modified 15thC; again in the 19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2018 by Bill Harrison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6003438] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: present church 12thC; much modified 15thC; again in the 19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 January 2017 by Bill Boaden [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5268676] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font - east side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- in the tower space; visble behind the font are some of the bell ringing ropes

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Wheatcroft, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3335/] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Rita Wood, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3335/] [accessed 1 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 17014BRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Broughton, Craven, North Yorkshire, BD23, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A59, 6-7 km W of Skipton, in Airedale

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Craven -- formerly West Riding

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 12th century [restored], Medieval [altered?]

Church Notes: present church 12thC; much modified 15th-16thC; again in the 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Broughton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD9451/broughton/] [accessed 1 September 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Moule (1837) mentions a cylindrical font in this church. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "inside there is a simple font in purplish sandstone. [...] The font has an octagonal stem made in two sections, the upper one shaped onto the circular base of the bowl. The bowl is cup-shaped in purplish-pink sandstone. It is upright in the upper half, in the manner of a rough cylinder, and the rim is not precisely circular. There is a slight angle or change of profile between the upper and lower half of the bowl. The basin is relatively shallow for an early 12thc font in Yorkshire; there is a central drainage hole. [...] It might be that the bowl was originally a cylinder, then chamfered in the lower part at a later date to be put on a stem; the straightness of the junction suggests recutting on a turntable or lathe, whereas the upper part appears to have been made without such equipment, yet tooling in both zones is much the same." The entry for this church in Historic Buildings [Listing NGR: SD9340750359] does not mention the font. Described in the Parish web site [www.fifparish.com/home/bmt/broughton.html] [accessed 7 November 2010]: "As you enter, through the late Norman doorway, to your left under the tower there stands an unadorned (but heavily restored) round Norman font, with a Jacobean cover." [NB: this same source reports also: "The bowl behind the communion table is an old holy water font, inexplicably fixed here on what is probably an old window mullion." [a piscina?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.9493, -2.1019

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 56' 57" N, 2° 6' 6" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 7.25-7.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 68.5-69 cm*

Basin Depth: 20-25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 41.5 cm* [approx.]

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? / Jacobean?

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-09-01 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]