Conistone / Conigsheved / Conishead / Coniside / Coniston / Cunestune / Kunigsheved
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Platt, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by Philip Platt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3094717] [accessed 11 April 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Conistone. 11th or 12th century, rebuilt in 19th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2013 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3392695] [accessed 11 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5505363] [accessed 11 April 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Conistone [...] The stone font is described as "possibly" Norman although it is placed on a later base."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5505367] [accessed 11 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22088CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Conistone with Kilnsey, Skipton, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B6160 and the Wharfe river, 5 km N of Grassington, in Upper Wharfedale
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds [formerly in the dioceses of Bradford and Leeds]
Historical Region: Hundred of Craven -- formerly West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Conistone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD9867/conistone/] [accessed 11 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whitaker (1823) mentions an early chapel here "made parochial A.D. 1586". [NB: not clear whether the old chapel was part of the priory that had thirteen canons ca. 1200 but fell to the Dissolution]. Morris (1932) reports a "Rude square font -- probably Norm[an]" in Coninston. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD9809667561] notes: "Church . Cll or C12 origins, rebuilt 1846, by Sharpe and Paley, retaining C14 features. [...] The font has a possibly Norman square tapered bowl, a restored stem and chamfered base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1039, -2.0306
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 6′ 14.04″ N, 2° 1′ 50.16″ W
UTM: 30U 563384 5995516
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823