Clapham nr. Settle / Clapeham
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 June 2014 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James'_Church,_Clapham_(7867).jpg] [accessed 5 February 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: with the modern font at the west end of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cumbrian Churches, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 30 November 2006, in Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.com/2008/11/clapham-st-james.html] [accessed 5 February 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 March 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1777558] [accessed 5 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22573CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [formerly St. Michael's]
Church Patron Saints: St. James [formerly St. Michael]
Church Location: 3 The Beeches / Church Av., Clapham LA2 8DT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A65, 10 km NW of Settle, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Amounderness -- formerly WRYrks / Richmondshire
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple-place entry for this Clapham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD7469/clapham/] [accessed 5 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in Whitaker (1823) states that the church was erected "in the great church-building era, the time of Henry I" [i.e., 1100-1135]; it mentions no font in it. The entry for this church in Historicv England [Listing NGR: SD7458169447] notes: "C15 tower, rest 1814, with c1900 alterations"; no font mentioned.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.12042, -2.3897
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 7′ 13.51″ N, 2° 23′ 22.92″ W
UTM: 30U 539889 5997092