Worsborough / Wincesburg / Wircesburg / Worsbrough

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: some of the arches resemble the horse-shoe type

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph posted 4 May 2013 by Judy Strachan [https://judyfamhist.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1663-baptismal-font.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2018]

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design element - motifs - broach stop - 4

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Scene Description: 1662

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2015 by Chemical Engineer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Worsbrough_23_June_2015_1.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11152WOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Ln, Worsbrough Rd, Worsbrough, Barnsley S70 5LQ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A61, 4-5 km S of Barnsley, 15-20 km N of Sheffield

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield

Historical Region: Hundred of Staincross -- formerly WRYrks

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1662

Century and Period: 17th century(mid) [composite font?], Baroque [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Worsborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3503/worsborough/] [accessed 5 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 5 December 1862 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) notes: "The font octagonal on an octagonal stem, penelled." Morris (1932) notes it as a font of the Restoration period dated by an inscription to 1662 but, "with much Gothic feeling for its date". Mee (1941) just writes: "The font is 1662." The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1315083] notes: "Church. Traces of C12 chancel otherwise C14 and C15, aisles remodelled in 1838 by J. P. Pritchett. [...] Font: broach-stopped base, octagonal with Gothic side panels and date '1662'. "

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.519164, -1.474104

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 31′ 8.99″ N, 1° 28′ 26.77″ W

UTM: 30U 601167 5931109

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: is it a restoration inscription on an earlier or composite font?

Inscription Location: on the basin side

Inscription Text: "1662"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: appears polygonal and flta; likely modern

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932