Kirk Sandal / Kirk Sandall / Sandal Minor / Sandalia
Image copyright © Alan, 2007
CC-BY-SA-3.0
Results: 1 records
view of church exterior
Scene Description: church reported here in 1086; present church 12thC; modified 14th, 16thC; restored 1864, 1934-1935
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2007 by Alan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Oswald_church_Doncaster_1096606270.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 11179SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Location: Kirk Sandall, Doncaster DN3 1DW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located N of the A18 and the A630, about 8 km from Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffiled
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just W of the S entranceway
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church Notes: church reported here in 1086; present church 12thC; modified 14th, 16thC; restored 1864, 1934-1935
Font Notes:
Click to view
There are two entries for [Kirk] Sandall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE6108/kirk-sandall/] [accessed 14 November 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 30 October 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is early and of cylindrical form." Described in Morris (1932): "Very plain, massive, circular, Trans[itional font]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6092808130] notes: "Church. C12, C14 and C16 with later additions, restored 1864 (by J. M.Teale) and in 1935. [...] cylindrical Norman font on two-step plinth." Noted in Harman & Pevsner (2017).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5663, -1.0815
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 33′ 58.68″ N, 1° 4′ 53.4″ W
UTM: 30U 627053 5936981
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
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