Sprotbrough / Sprotborough / Sproteburg
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Hogg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2011 by Graham Hogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2692589] [accessed 26 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neal Theasby, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2015 by Neal Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4588558] [accessed 26 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11205SPR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: advowson of a church here documented 1176/1196; present church 13th-14thC, much modified later; restored by Comper 1912-1915
Church Address: Main Street, Sprotbrough, Doncaster DN5 7RF, UK -- Tel.: 01302 854836
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M), 6 km SW of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Sprotbrough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5302/sprotbrough/] [accessed 26 November 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Hunter (1828-1831) writes: "The font is octagonal, and remarkably capacious." Noted in Glynne's 16 April 1863 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007): "The font is plain, the bowl octagonal." The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports an "antique font with a Gothic canopy". In Morris (1932): "Plain octagonal font." Mee (1941) dates the font to the 15th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5395802033] notes: "Church. C13 and C14 with C15 and C16 alterations and additions"; there is no font mentioned in it. No mention of the font here in Harman & Pevsner (2017) either. [NB: the church dates back to ca. 1176, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 620154 5930801
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5124, -1.188
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 30′ 44.64″ N, 1° 11′ 16.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Gothic?
Material: wood
Notes: canopy? [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sprotbrough/Sprotbrough68.html [accessed 25 November 2008]
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 391
- Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931, vol. 1: 347
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 376
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 488