Womersley / Wlmeresleia / Wormersley

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin's Church, Womersley. The nave and north aisle seen here represent the oldest external parts of the church, dating from the 13th century, although the church has its origin in the 12th century. The tower and spire are from the 14th century. Restored in 1890 and Listed grade I."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by 24 December 2013 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3793948] [accessed 4 December 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 02037WOM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Unnamed Rd off Church Ln, Womersley, Doncaster DN6 9BH, UK -- Tel.: (01977) 620296
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km S of the M62, 8 km SE of Pontefract, 16-18 km NW of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgodcross -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this church [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5318/womersley/] [accessed 4 December 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 28 January 1856 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has an octagonal bowl, moulded below, upon an octagonal stem." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Morris (1932) notes: "The font is Dec[orated] or Perp[endicular]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5322718984] notes: "Church. C12 origins with C13 nave and north aisle, early C14 south aisle, porch, transepts, tower and spire, and C15, C18 and C19 additions and alterations including alterations to chancel and addition of north vestry. Restored by Bodley 1895"; neither font nor cover are mentioned in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.664642,
-1.19592
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 39′ 52.71″ N,
1° 11′ 45.31″ W
UTM: 30U 619199 5947723
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Notes: tall openwork spire; Victorian?
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
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932