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Baptismal Well and Flanking Walls

A Grade II Listed Building in Clifford, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8921 / 53°53'31"N

Longitude: -1.3517 / 1°21'6"W

OS Eastings: 442701

OS Northings: 444189

OS Grid: SE427441

Mapcode National: GBR MR0F.4J

Mapcode Global: WHDB7.6FKK

Plus Code: 9C5WVJRX+V8

Entry Name: Baptismal Well and Flanking Walls

Listing Date: 18 September 1970

Last Amended: 8 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1313463

English Heritage Legacy ID: 342016

ID on this website: 101313463

Location: Clifford, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS23

County: Leeds

Civil Parish: Clifford

Built-Up Area: Clifford

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Clifford St Luke

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description



SE 4244-4344
7/95
18.9.70

CLIFFORD LS23
BRAMHAM ROAD
(east side)
Baptismal well and flanking walls
(formerly listed as being on High Street)

GV
II

Well house with attached roadside walls. 1840's. For Rev. Lewthwaite (Lane
Fox, p.34). Coursed magnesian limestone, stone slate roof. Small, 1-storey
rectangular building with chamfered, quoined, pointed-arch doorway blocked-up
and set within a recessed stone panel with wrought-iron lamp bracket; above
is a moulded, pointed arch rising from corbels beneath a continuous impost
string course and with a hoodmould having carved saltire cross on left stop
and angel on right stop. Sunken rectangular panel with illegible inscription
beneath steeply-pitched gable having coping with weathered text in its
moulded edge. Rear: pointed arched doorway; hipped roof.
Interior: iron spigot rises from well; groined vault. Adjoining walls
extending approximately 15 metres to each side have domed copings; the left
wall is broken by an opening with simple iron gate. Previous list
description states the moulded pointed arch may be C15. Walls form boundary
of Fontwell House.
Hildebrand Lane Fox, Chronicles of a Wharfedale Parish, 1909.

Listing NGR: SE4270144189

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