Longstone / Great Longstone / Langesdune / Longstone Magna
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Abell, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2007 by Bob Abell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1114300 ] [accessed 11 September 2018]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Heardman, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2008 by Alan Heardman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/863929 ] [accessed 11 September 2018]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1991 by John Salmon [whttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3269841] [accessed 11 September 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4629583] [accessed 11 September 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01572LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Church Ln, Great Longstone, Bakewell DE45 1TB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1629 640257
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off Moor Rd / Main St, off (N) the A6020, 5 km NNW of Bakewell, 20 km W of Chesterfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackwell
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: original church 13thC; modified 14th and 16thC; re-built 1871-1873 re-using some earlier materials
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Great] Longstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK2071/great-longstone/] [accessed 11 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox (1875-1877) notes: "The font is of a good octagon design, with four uncharged shields on the alternate panels." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. [NB: both descriptions are inaccurate; the font is not Perpendicular [cf. infra] and the shields are charged]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK2002171910] notes: "Church. C13, C14, C16 and 1871-3 by Richard Norman Shaw [...] octagonal font with cover, also by Shaw." The present font is indeed modern and has a tall octagonal pyramidal cover, also modern [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.24285, -1.701017
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 34.26″ N, 1° 42′ 3.66″ W
UTM: 30U 586683 5900073
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907