Furness Abbey nr. Barrow and Dalton / Fornacibus / Fudernesium / Fumes / Furneis / Furnesium
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view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Furness Abbey: Chancel. The usual square ended Cistercian model."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2433849] [accessed 22 February 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Furness Abbey - Nave and Transepts. Little remains of the nave of the great abbey church at Furness, the grassed area seen here being the floor with the stumps of pillars to the left and low wall to the right being the only remaining masonry. Ahead however are the much more substantial remains of the Transepts with the North to the left and South to the right of the central arch marking the Crossing, with the Presbytery and eastern end of the church (originally containing the High altar) leading on from this."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2013 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3708102] [accessed 22 February 2018]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Furness Abbey : Nave. Little remains apart from the west end."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2433853] [accessed 22 February 2019]
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view of context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Furness Abbey. A row of fine Norman arches."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oliver Dixon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2018 by Oliver Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5770831] [accessed 22 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01548FUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church [in ruins]
Church Location: Manor Rd, Barrow-in-Furness LA13 0PJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located S of Dalton-in-Furness, N of Barrow-in-Furness, in the Vale of Nightshade
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday] -- formerly Lancashire
Date: ca. 1127?
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Late Norman
Church Notes: church of the Savigniac Order [later Cistercian] abbey founded 1123; destroyed 1537
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Furness found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this abbey in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "a monastery was founded at Tulketh near Preston, as an offshoot of the Benedictine abbey of Savigny. In 1127 this colony was moved to Furness, and shortly after 1148 it was handed over, together with the mother abbey of Savigny, to the Cistercian order", its church "was begun in 1127"; no font mentioned. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Decorated period in Furness [perhaps referring to Dalton-in-Furness?]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century abbey church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.135278, -3.197778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 8′ 7″ N, 3° 11′ 52″ W
UTM: 30U 487078 5998591
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: type unknown
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907