Letwell

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: The modern re-building of 1869

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

Font ID: 11123LET

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Date: ca. 1375?

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Notes: present church built ca. 1375; much modified through the ages; re-built 1820; destroyed by fire; re-built 1869

Church Address: Letwell, Worksop S81 8DE, UK

Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom

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

Additional Comments: disappeared / destroted font? (the one from the ca. 1375 church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

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

UTM: 30U 622364 5915831

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3774, -1.1605

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 22′ 38.64″ N, 1° 9′ 37.8″ W

REFERENCES

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 389
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 282
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 44, 283