Letwell
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: The modern re-building of 1869
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Morgan, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2014 by Chris Morgan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3876811] [accessed 15 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11123LET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Letwell, Worksop S81 8DE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B6463, W of Langold, E of Dinnington, E of Sheffield, near the county border with Notts.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Date: ca. 1375?
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church Notes: present church built ca. 1375; much modified through the ages; re-built 1820; destroyed by fire; re-built 1869
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Letwell in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5594787052] notes: "Church. C15 tower and north wall of nave, otherwise rebuilt 1820 (patron H. G. Knight) burnt down 1867 and rebuilt by 1869 (patron Sir Thomas Woolaston White). [...] Font: carved bowl set on cylindrical pillar and 4 shafts and inscribed 'Fanny White / Sculpt'."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3774, -1.1605
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 22′ 38.64″ N, 1° 9′ 37.8″ W
UTM: 30U 622364 5915831
REFERENCES
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967