Thurnscoe / Ternusc / Ternusche
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Helen's Church, Thurnscoe. The original Church of St. Helen on High Street was built in 1087 though today very little of that early structure remains. Excavations during renovation work under a former Rector, John Hall, revealed evidence of Anglo-Saxon activity, including a skeleton, indicating that it may well have been a sacred site before the Norman church was established here. The church we see today was mostly developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neal Theasby, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2015 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4486223] [accessed 28 November 2018]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11222THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: 144 High St, Thurnscoe, Rotherham S63 0RH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1709 893325
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 12 km W of Doncaster, 14 km from Barnsley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Date: ca. 1087?
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Thurnscoe [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4505/thurnscoe/] [accessed 28 November 2018] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Mee (1941) notes: "under the 18th century tower stands a dainty wooden font in the classical style of that time, its cover carved with acanthus leaves." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4500805616] notes: "Church. Tower 1729, otherwise late C19, nave dated 1887, some Gothic fragments. [...] Unusual C18 font: wooden bowl with gadrooned base and acanthus-carved cover set on short cylindrical stone column." Noted in Harman & Pevsner (2017) as 18th-century, unusual and handsome. The font consists of a a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with pronounced gadroons all around its underbowl, the upper rim protuding excessively and decorated with stylised rope motif; the large cover is low-dome shaped with an oversize finial. It is raised on a stone pedestal base. [NB: the tower is said to go back to 1087, but we have no information on the early font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 611558 5934328
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes and Images area]
REFERENCES
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941