Wentworth nr. Sheffield / Winteuuorde
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 May 2004)
Results: 6 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Victorian font in the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com] [detail]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 May 2004)
view of basin
Scene Description: the original basin of the old church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mrs. Ward, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in www.wentworthvillage.net [accessed 16 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Martin Gill (e-mail of 16 December 2007)
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the old church ca. 2007
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.wentworthvillage.net, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in www.wentworthvillage.net [accessed 16 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Martin Gill (e-mail of 16 December 2007)
view of church exterior
Scene Description: Wentworth Old Church in 1909
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jerry Cassidy, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in www.wentworthvillage.net [accessed 16 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission from Martin Gill (e-mail of 16 December 2007)
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the new 19th-century church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.wentworthvillage.net, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in www.wentworthvillage.net [accessed 16 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Martin Gill (e-mail of 16 December 2007)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Victorian font in the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 May 2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09842WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Old Church of the Holy Trinity [new church]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: originally 12thC church a chapel of ease to All Saints Church, Wath Upon Dearne -- church reported derelict and in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund (1968)
Church Address: Church Field Lane, Wentworth, Rotherham S62 7TX
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B6090, 13 km NNW of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth [in Domesday] -- West Riding of Yorkshire
Additional Comments: disused font / replaced font / recycled font (now used as garden ornament) -- disappeared font? (the one form the original 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Wentworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3898/wentworth/] [accessed 25 April 2016], but it mewntions neither cleric nor church in it. The Wentworth Village site [www.wentworthvillage.net/oldchurch.shtml] [accessed 16 December 2007] illustrates an old basin with the caption: "Mrs. Ward has [...] provided us with this picture of the font which was formely in the Old Church and now appears to be used as a garden feature." The baptismal font in the new church of the Holy Trinity [the old church of the same dedication still stands] is in the style of the classical Perpendicular font: octagonal basin with short chamfer at the upper rim and vertical sides decorated with quatrefoil motifs; chamfered underbowl on octagonal pedestal base and octagonal-to-square lower base, and square plinth. The smaller details of the basin sides (tiny pattern on the frame panels, mini-rosettes on the lower rim, etc.) as well as the general sharpness of the arrises and general appearance are indicative of a Victorian font in the style of the Perpendicular period.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Martin Gill, of Wentworth Village, for the photographs of the buildings and the old font, and to Colin Hinson, of www.genuki.org.uk, for the photographs of the later font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 604663 5926750
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.47931, -1.422862
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 28′ 45.52″ N, 1° 25′ 22.3″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round