Throapham / Laughton-en-le-Morthen/ Laughton-en-le-Morthing / Trapum / Trapun

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "St John's Church, Laughton-en-le-Morthen or Throapham. This church is often dismissed with a description like "there is another church in Laughton-en-le-Morthen". That's hardly surpring with it's neighbour so close by on the top of the hill, All Saints. However, St John's is really in Throapham, or it was originally, probably when there must have been a larger village about here."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John's Church, Laughton-en-le-Morthen or Throapham. This church is often dismissed with a description like "there is another church in Laughton-en-le-Morthen". That's hardly surpring with it's neighbour so close by on the top of the hill, All Saints. However, St John's is really in Throapham, or it was originally, probably when there must have been a larger village about here."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Morgan, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2014 by Chris Morgan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3876918] [accessed 27 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Slater, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2013 by John Slater [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3735480] [accessed 27 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11206THR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Laughton en le Morthen and Asby
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. John [chapelry of Laughton en le Morthen]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: St John's Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S25 1YL, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B6060, in the parish of Laughton en le Morthen, near Dinnington, about 13 km ESE of Rotherham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Straffoth -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Troapham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5286/throapham/] [accessed 27 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font in the Church of St. John the Baptist, Laughton-en-le-Morthing [spelling in Hunter] is described in Hunter (1828-1831): "The font is antient, but not of equal antiquity with the sculptured sepulchral stone. It is remarkable for its size , and specially its height […] The sides are decorated with crosses and quatrefoils, except one, which exhibits a shield of arms, Barry of six, on a chief a lion passant." Armitage (1905) reports a "large Dec[orated] font" in this church. Noted in Morris (1932): "Font closely resembling that at Laughton, and apparently late Dec[orated] or Perp[endicular]." In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], the bowl castellated. The panels with various kinds of tracery. A brother to the font at neighbouring Laughton." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5232087572] notes: "Church now redundant and undergoing restoration. C12 origin, nave of several medieval builds, C15 tower, chancel and porch rebuilt 1709, C19 restoration. [...] Font: octagonal, Perpendicular with traceried panels and castellated top." [NB: Throapham St John's is located at one end of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, itself with another medieval font -- cf. Index entry for Laughton-en-le-Morthen]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 618732 5916296
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3824, -1.2149
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 22′ 56.64″ N, 1° 12′ 53.64″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905, 258
  • Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 664
  • Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931, vol. 1: 287
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 505
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 516