Flockton / Flochetone
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the modern church of 1869
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2011 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2529556] [accessed 8 November 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern church of 1869
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St James the Great, Flockton, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in St James the Great, Flockton [www.flocktonchurch.org/building-project-archive.html] [accessed 8 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font and cover in context
![the modern baptismal font in its present location by the chancel screen [NB: at the time of the renovations undertaken in 2015-2016 "The west end has been dug up and the font has moved near its new place at the front."]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181109011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern baptismal font in its present location by the chancel screen [NB: at the time of the renovations undertaken in 2015-2016 "The west end has been dug up and the font has moved near its new place at the front."]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St James the Great, Flockton, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in St James the Great, Flockton [www.flocktonchurch.org/building-project-archive.html] [accessed 8 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 21866FLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Barnsley Road, Flockton, West Yorkshire WF4 4DH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A637, S of the A642, ESE of Huddersfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Agbrigg -- formerly WRYrks
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Flockton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2314/flockton/] [accessed 8 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2401714926] and in Harman & Pevsner (2017) note the re-building of 1869 but mention no font in it. The Forebears site [https://forebears.co.uk/birth?pid=10800] [accessed 8 November 2018] shows baptismal records for Flockton going as far back as 1717, but we have no information of the date of the earlier church here, a chapelry, in the parish of Thornhill. The present font in this church is modern; it consists of an octagonal basin on an octagonal pedestal base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.63031, -1.6382
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 37′ 49.12″ N, 1° 38′ 17.52″ W
UTM: 30U 590052 5943253
REFERENCES
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017