Middleton nr. Manchester
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "St Leonard’s Parish Church in Middleton [...] Much of the present building was erected in 1412 byThomas Langley (born in Middleton in 1363) who served as Bishop of Durham and Lord Chancellor of England. He re-used the Norman doorway from an earlier structure to create the tower arch. The church was completed in 1524".](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190309006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Leonard’s Parish Church in Middleton [...] Much of the present building was erected in 1412 byThomas Langley (born in Middleton in 1363) who served as Bishop of Durham and Lord Chancellor of England. He re-used the Norman doorway from an earlier structure to create the tower arch. The church was completed in 1524".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3666265] [accessed 8 March 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01558MID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-carved in the 19th-century?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: New Ln, Middleton, Manchester M24 6DJ, UK
Site Location: Greater Manchester, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A664-A6046 crossroads, 8-9 km NNE of Manchester city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Manchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Salford -- formerly Lancashire
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present font; re-carved 19thC?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for this Middleton in the Domesday survey. Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872 and Cox & Harvey (1907) report a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period in this church. The entry in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 5, 1911) informs that the 12th-century original church was re-built in the 15th century, with extensive renovations and alterations in the 1840s and 1860s; "The font is at the west end of the south aisle, and was plain till 1846, when it was carved as at present." The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=213457] [accessed 11 August 2009], however, reports a font of the 19th century in this church [which is probably the formerly plain font noted in the VCH as re-carved in the 1860s. [NB: the original church appears to have been Norman, but we have no information on its font, unless it is the same font later re-carved]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 553357 5934114
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5532, -2.1946
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 33′ 11.52″ N, 2° 11′ 40.56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 205
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcription in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Middleton/ImpGaz1872.shtml [accessed 11 August 2009]]