Thornton-le-Moors No. 1 / Thornton le Moors / Thornton-in-the-Moors / Torentune
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the small village of Thornton-le-Moors. The nave, chancel and south aisle of the present church, is built in red sandstone with slate roofs, date from the 14th century as does the south door. A chapel, the Elton Chapel, was added in the 16th century. The tower also dates from this time; it was damaged by fire in 1909 and was largely rebuilt in 1910. The church closed in 2002 and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust in September 2009."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2015 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4656540] [accessed 25 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2012 by Rept0n1x [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_church,_Thornton-le-Moors_(4).JPG] [accessed 25 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Lord, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2010 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2215255] [accessed 25 October 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10762THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant since 2002]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [formerly St. Helen]
Church Location: Poole Ln, Thornton-le-Moors, Chester CH2 4HU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A5117, just S of the Stanlow Refinery, 11 km NNE of Chester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Ruloe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1673
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Church Notes: late-medieval church re-built on Domesday-time one;
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Thornton [le Moors] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ4474/thornton-le-moors/] [accessed 25 October 2019]; it reports a church in it. Pevsner (1971) writes: "Font. C17. A big cup, strongly fluted." Richards (1973) writes of two fonts of about the same period: "Within recent times the old font, dated 1673, has been recovered. It is octagonal and the panels are decorated with roses and part circles. For many years this font was used as a flower and plant base in a Thornton garden." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ4415774550] notes: "Church. C14th onwards, probably on site of pre-Conquest church. [ Fragments C10th cross shaft with figure and animal carvings from trench round church. [...] Fluted marble font, C17th. [...] C17th, probably, sandstone water stoop, on carved pedestal." [cf. Index entry for Thornton... No. 2 for the second font of about the same date]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.265, -2.8386
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 54″ N, 2° 50′ 18.96″ W
UTM: 30U 510805 5901762
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: "1673"
Inscription Source: Richards (1973: 329)
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971
Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973