Worksop Priory / Werchesoppe / Wirkesop / Worsoppe
Image copyright © Worksop Priory Church of Our Lady & S. Cuthbert, 2014
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view of font - northeast side
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]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181201013_compressed.png)
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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view of church exterior - south portal
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south porch
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - tower - north tower - west portal
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - west portal
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 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."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181201006_compressed.png)
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - 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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02034WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Priory Church of Our Lady and Saint Cuthbert, Worksop
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Cuthbert
Church Notes: Augustinian priory founded ca. 1103; dissolved 1539; nave of the church used later as parish church; restored and enlarged 19th, 20thC
Church Address: Priorswell Rd, Worksop S80 2BW, UK
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A60, E of the A57
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bassettlaw
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC priory church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 625570 5907702
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.303611, -1.115556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 18′ 13″ N, 1° 6′ 56″ W
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, p. 231
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 401