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
FontID: 11205SPR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main Street, Sprotbrough, Doncaster DN5 7RF, UK -- Tel.: 01302 854836
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: advowson of a church here documented 1176/1196; present church 13th-14thC, much modified later; restored by Comper 1912-1915
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.5124,
-1.188
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 30′ 44.64″ N,
1° 11′ 16.8″ W
UTM: 30U 620154 5930801
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
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931
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