Pontefract No. 2 / Pomfret
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2016 by derek dye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5652332] [accessed 18 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "A twelfth century church originally called "St Mary's on the Market Place". It was rededicated to Saint Giles when a fair was granted to Pontefract on the feast of the saint."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2010 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/4668681311] [accessed 18 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21846PON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles] [earlier dedicated to St. Mary]
Church Notes: 12thC chapel-of-ease, St. Mary’s in the Market Place; modified mid-14th, 18th, 19th, 21stC; became town church 1789 taking over from All Saints'
Church Address: Market Pl, Pontefract WF8 1AT, UK -- Tel.: +44 1977 790448
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the junction fo the A1-M62, 25 km SE of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original medieval church here) -- moved font? (the present one, received from All Saints')
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Pontrefact found in the Domesday survey. Glynne's 1833 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has been restored, and is Perpendicular, octagonal panelled with shields and foliage." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Parish Church St Giles, Pontefract site [http://www.stgilespontefract.org.uk/history/] [accessed 18 October 2018] notes: "The Font is believed to be over 550 years old dating back to late Mediaeval times. Its origin is unknown. [...] In 1902, the font was moved from the east end of the south aisle to its present location." The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/16745] [accessed 18 October 2018] notes: "Medieval and Georgian town church" but mentions no font in it. Ryder (1993) reports here a 15th-century font originally from All Saints'. Harman & Pevsner (2017) mention the 19th-century copy of the medieval font now at St. Giles, and the original 15th-century font itself.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 611471 5950575
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.69197, -1.3118
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 41′ 31.09″ N, 1° 18′ 42.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 430, 431