Adwick upon Dearne / Adwick-upon-Dearne / Adwick-on-Dearne / Hadeuuic
Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Theasby, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2012 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2991562] [accessed 24 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: some of the repairs to the upper rim area are visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 April 2011 by Rita Wood [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/96/] [accessed 24 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2011 by Rita Wood [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/96/] [accessed 24 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 11160ADW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Adwick-upon-Dearne, Mexborough S64 0NE, UK -- Tel.: 01709 898538
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A6023, 2 km N of Mexborough, about 13 km from Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield [formerly York]
Historical Region: Liberty of Tickhill -- Hundred of Strafforth [in Domesday] -- formerly in WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [altered?], Medieval [altered?]
There is an entry for Adwick [upon Dearne] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4701/adwick-upon-dearne/] [accessed 24 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in Glynne's visit of 18 January 1860 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is now in the chancel [and] has a circular bowl, cup-shaped, on a base." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Morris (1932) as a "cup-shaped font." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4702401495] notes: "Church. C12 with C13 and later windows, vestry added and chancel arch replaced in 1910 [...] Late C19 fittings", but mentions no font in it. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) does not mention tthe font as Romanesque.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.508004,
-1.2928
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 30′ 28.81″ N,
1° 17′ 34.08″ W
UTM: 30U 613217 5930140
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
