Longford nr. Derby / Laganford
Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/longford.html] [accessed 22 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/longford.html] [accessed 22 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01554LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad
Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Church Location: Long Ln, Longford, Ashbourne DE6, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A515, N of the A50, WNW of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Directory of 1891 reports a Norman font in this church, "which has a plain and massive bowl". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The font is now [2008] a composite arrangement with the old Norman basin probably re-cut at the underbowl and raised on a modern base of clustered columns, and a two step circular plinth [NB: it is unclear whether the carved pattern on the underbowl was part of the original decoration or a later addition when the font was re-mounted, though most likely the latter in view of Kelly's description [cf. supra]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.943464, -1.681506
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 36.47″ N, 1° 40′ 53.42″ W
UTM: 30U 588598 5866795
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891