Thorley nr. Bishops Stortford No. 2 / Thorleia / Torlei

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08786THO

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century?, Perpendicular

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great

Font Location in Church: Located near the W door

Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Address: Church Lane, Thorley, Hertfordshire CM23 4BE

Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Thorley is adjacent to Bishops Stortford on the SW, off the A1184

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Braughing [aka Brauging] -- formerly Essex

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for this Thorley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4719/thorley/] [accessed 26 October 2016], one of which mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) note a 15th-century holy-water stoup located by the west door of this church. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911). The position is also noted in Tompkins (1922).

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 303129 5748098

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.84892, 0.14161

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 50′ 56.11″ N, 0° 8′ 29.8″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 237
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office by J. Truscott, 1911, p. 220
Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922, [www.guttenberg.org/files/18252/18252-8.txt]