Kirkharle / Harle / Herle / Kirk Harle / Kirkehirle / Kyrkherll

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Landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was born on the Kirkharle estate and baptised in the church in 1716 -- the baptism would have taken place perhaps in the original font of this church, not in the font received much later from All Saints' Newcastle
Scene Description: Landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was born on the Kirkharle estate and baptised in the church in 1716 -- the baptism would have taken place perhaps in the original font of this church, not in the font received much later from All Saints' Newcastle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/northumbria/churches/kirkharle.htm] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Les Hull, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2011 by Les Hull [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2339239] [accessed 16 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Henderson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2011 by Bill Henderson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2449258] [accessed 16 June 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east

view east from the west arch [there is no tower in this church]
Scene Description: view east from the west arch [there is no tower in this church]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Borrell, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2007 by Peter Borrell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/520379] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west

the font is partially visible through the right [north] opening of the chancel screen
Scene Description: the font is partially visible through the right [north] opening of the chancel screen
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view of font and cover

the restored heraldic font, originally from the Parish Church of All Saints in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as displayed inside the Church of St Wilfrid, Kirkharle -- the eroded emblems on the shields have been reproduced on the modern lower base
Scene Description: the restored heraldic font, originally from the Parish Church of All Saints in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as displayed inside the Church of St Wilfrid, Kirkharle -- the eroded emblems on the shields have been reproduced on the modern lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/northumbria/churches/kirkharle.htm] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22244KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid [aka St. Wilfred's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Church Location: Kirkharle, Kirknewton [Kirkwhelpington], Northumberland, England, NE19 2PE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A696-B6342 crossroads, NW of Capheaton, about 40 km NW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of the church and font
Church Notes: original church probably 12thC; present church 14th, 15th and 18thC re-buildings
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for Kirkharle in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ0116582639] notes: "Church. C14, C18, restored 1884. [...] Perpendicular font from old Church of All Saints, Newcastle: octagonal with shields." [cf. BSI entry for Newcastle No. 4]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th(?) or 14thC church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.137849, -1.9835
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 8′ 16.25″ N, 1° 59′ 0.6″ W
UTM: 30U 564800 6110603