Baptismal Well And Flanking Walls

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