Cumberworth nr. Huddersfield / Combreuuorde / Upper Cumberworth

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view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Nicholas at Upper Cumberworth. Grade 2 listed and mostly of 1876, but not a very exciting building. To the right of the lamp post and part obscuring the doorway are the village stocks."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Hatton, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4375243] [accessed 2 November 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: "The body of the font itself is believed to be from the 17th century church. The base looks more modern and has probably been replaced at some point." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St Nicholas Center, 2018
Image Source: digital image of an undated anonymous postcard in the St Nicholas Center Collection [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1477/4/] [accessed 3 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 21860CUM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Ln, Upper Cumberworth, Huddersfield HD8 8PA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1484 603051
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A636, E of the A629, 14 km SE of Huddersfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Staincross -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side of the nave
Century and Period: 17th century[composite font?], Baroque [composite]
Church Notes: present church is 1876 re-building
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Upper] Cumberworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2108/upper-cumberworth/] [accessed 2 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this Cumberworth in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1848 describes it as a chapelry in the parish of High Hoyland, a chapelry divided into Upper and Lower, both being "of considerable antiquity, and in the former is the chapel of St. Nicholas, and ancient building". There are no further details of this old chapel in Lewis. The entry for this church in Huddersfield Exposed [https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/St._Nicholas's_Church,_Upper_Cumberworth] [accessed 2 November 2018] [Historic England listing entry number 1135330] notes: "Font, probably C17 with octagonal bowl and pedestal." Sue Holt's brief history of this church in the Upper Cumberworth Parish site [www.stnicholas-cumberworth.org/Upper Cumberworth St Nicholas.pdf] [accessed 2 November 2018] notes: "St Nicholas’ is the third church to be built on this site. There was a chapel here in the 13th century (possibly built around 1255) and a record of the parish priests goes back to the 1200’s. A second church was built on the site in the 17th century and was still referred to as Cumberworth Chapel. [...] The present church was built during the 1870’s [...] The body of the font itself is believed to be from the 17th century church. The base looks more modern and has probably been replaced at some point."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.57561, -1.6821
UTM: 30U 587268 5937157
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal base with eight straight ribs around a centre pivot; Latin cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1848-1849