Meltham
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Scene Description: the modern font in the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1460243] [accessed 16 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2014 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/14743594025] [accessed 16 November 2018]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1460250] [accessed 16 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1460251] [accessed 16 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21884MEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: 1651?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: address and coordinates are for the new church: Green End Rd, Meltham, Holmfirth HD9 5NW, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B6108, 7-8 km SW of Huddersfield, 35 km NW of Sheffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1651 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Meltham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1010/meltham/] [accessed 16 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE0993710637] notes: "Classical church on site of church of 1651. 1782-6. Thought to be by Joseph Jagger. Tower and north transept added 1835 by J P Pritchett. Neo-Norman chancel added 1877-8 by John Kirk. [...] Neo-Norman font presented 1878." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 576016 5938794
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.59247, -1.8515
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 35′ 32.89″ N, 1° 51′ 5.4″ W