Whitwell nr. Worksop / Witeuuelle
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wood, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4158906] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "The church dates from the 12th century onwards [...] The font is probably older than the church and may have been transferred from an original, previous building."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160513025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from the 12th century onwards [...] The font is probably older than the church and may have been transferred from an original, previous building."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2013 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3454767] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman, 12th century west tower door at St. Lawrence's church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/608442] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave has 12th century clerestory windows with a corbel table. The arcades are of four bays, with round arches and circular piers. The north aisle has the remnants of a stone seat which was used by the old, weak and sick. The chancel arch is 12th century and is richly moulded. There is a rood doorway to the left."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2013 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3454791] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Lawrence, Whitwell, nave looking west. A complete Norman nave."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johnathan Thacker, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2015 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4765469] [accesed 12 May 2016]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Lawrence, Whitwell, font. A simple Norman tub font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johnathan Thacker, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2015 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4765470] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: photograph taken in 1991 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3271387] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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view of font and cover - northeast side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Lawrence's font. Early Norman 11th century font, moved to the south transept in 1969."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken by 9 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/608430] [accessed 12 May 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11184WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 52 B6043, Whitwell, Derbyshire S80 4RB
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B6043, off (S) the A619, WSW of Worksop, N of Mansfield, near the border with Nottinghamshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Scarsdale [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; moved to S transept in 1969
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Whitwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5276/whitwell/] [accessed 12 May 2016]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Cox (1875) writes: "On entering the church by the south porch, the upper part of the old Norman font lies right before us, although a modern one is now in use. It is a massive circular stone, quite free from ornament, but still lined with lead. It is sixteen inches high, thirty in diameter, and ten in the depth of the bowl." Armitage (1905) reports that "the remains of a rude Norman font are preserved" in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Norman, plain tub-shape." At least one local source [www.derbyshireuk.net] claims a Saxon date for this font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.286106, -1.212168
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 17′ 09.98″ N, 1° 12′ 43.8″ W
UTM: 30U 619182 5905589
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1875)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978