Thorne nr. Doncaster / Torne
Image copyright © Martin Dawes, 2012
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas Parish Church. Taken from the top of Peel Hill, site of the castle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Dawes, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 February 2012 by Martin Dawes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2842048] [accessed 13 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bevis, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2011 by Dave Bevis [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2387085] [accessed 13 February 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02036THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: original church 12thC; modified 15thC
Church Address: Stonegate, Thorne, Doncaster DN8 5NP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1405 814055
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1146, just NE of the M18-M180 junction, 17 km NE of Doncaster and now in its metropolitan borough
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly West Riding of Yorkshire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Thorne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE6813/thorne/] [accessed 13 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's visit to this church before 1840 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a plain octagon." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Morris (1932): "Octagonal font." In Mee (1941) simply as "medieval."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 634953 5942158
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.610832, -0.960063
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 36′ 38.99″ N, 0° 57′ 36.23″ 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. 402
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 384
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 494