Worksop Priory / Werchesoppe / Wirkesop / Worsoppe

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Image copyright © Worksop Priory Church of Our Lady & S. Cuthbert, 2014

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view of church exterior - south porch

Source caption: "Worksop Priory, south porch. Added to the Norman church in the 13th century."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Worksop Priory, south porch. Added to the Norman church in the 13th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2015 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4692173] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal

Source caption: "The south door of Worksop Priory Church. Made from yew, this door was constructed around 1250 and is decorated with some of the finest iron scrollwork to be found anywhere in England. The stone arch is even older - part of the original Norman structure. On its thin columns you can still see examples of Jerusalem crosses, lightly hacked into the stonework by crusaders of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The south door of Worksop Priory Church. Made from yew, this door was constructed around 1250 and is decorated with some of the finest iron scrollwork to be found anywhere in England. The stone arch is even older - part of the original Norman structure. On its thin columns you can still see examples of Jerusalem crosses, lightly hacked into the stonework by crusaders of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Theasby, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2016 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4822528] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - tower - north tower - west portal

Source caption: "12th century doorway at the base of the north tower."
Scene Description: Source caption: "12th century doorway at the base of the north tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2015 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4692196] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - west façade

Source caption: "Worksop Priory, west front. [...] The front remains – unusually – virtually as built in the 12th century, the most obvious addition being the later (14th century) crenellation."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Worksop Priory, west front. [...] The front remains – unusually – virtually as built in the 12th century, the most obvious addition being the later (14th century) crenellation."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2015 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4692178] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - west portal

Source caption: "This is the fine Norman west doorway leading into the nave of the church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "This is the fine Norman west doorway leading into the nave of the church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2015 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4692198] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Source caption: "Corbel stop, west door, Worksop Priory. A typical Romanesque grotesque".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Corbel stop, west door, Worksop Priory. A typical Romanesque grotesque".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2015 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4692199] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "Fantastic nine-bay Norman arcades c1140-1170 with alternating round and octagonal piers in the nave of Worksop Priory - looking east".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fantastic nine-bay Norman arcades c1140-1170 with alternating round and octagonal piers in the nave of Worksop Priory - looking east".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2730325] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of font - northeast side

"The font, if not modern, is not remarkable." [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: "The font, if not modern, is not remarkable." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Worksop Priory Church of Our Lady & S. Cuthbert, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2014 in the Worksop Priory Church of Our Lady & S. Cuthbert [http://worksoppriory.co.uk/gallery-23/nggallery/gallery/Church-Building-Images/thumbnails/page/2] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of font in context - northeast side

"The font, if not modern, is not remarkable." [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: "The font, if not modern, is not remarkable." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Worksop Priory Church of Our Lady & S. Cuthbert, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2014 in the Worksop Priory Church of Our Lady & S. Cuthbert [http://worksoppriory.co.uk/gallery-23/nggallery/gallery/Church-Building-Images/thumbnails/page/2] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 02034WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Priory Church of Our Lady and Saint Cuthbert, Worksop
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Cuthbert
Church Location: Priorswell Rd, Worksop S80 2BW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A60, E of the A57
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bassettlaw
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Church Notes: Augustinian priory founded ca. 1103; dissolved 1539; nave of the church used later as parish church; restored and enlarged 19th, 20thC
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Workdop [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5879/worksop/] [accessed 29 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. John Holland's The History, Antiquities, and Description of the Town and Parish of Worksop, in the County of Nottingham (Sheffield: J. Blackwell, 1826): 113, notes: "The font, if not modern, is not remarkable. Bray has noticed its "very antique wooden cover"." [NB: was this the font later moved to Todwick? [cf. Index entry for Todwick]]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5902778910] notes: "Augustinian priory, now Parish church. C11, C12, C13, C14, restored 1845-49 by R. Nicholson; Lady Chapel restored 1922 as a war memorial, south transept built 1929, north transept built 1935 by Sir Harold Breakspear. Crossing tower, sanctuary and east end by Laurence King, 1966-74. [...] Fittings include font, 1857, with octagonal main shaft and panelled square bowl; font, 1974"; of the two fonts mentioned in HE it appears that the one at the west end of the centre aisle is the font from 1974 .

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.303611, -1.115556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 18′ 13″ N, 1° 6′ 56″ W
UTM: 30U 625570 5907702

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007