Thornton Bradford No. 1 / Thornton in Bradford / Torentune

Main image for Thornton Bradford No. 1 / Thornton in Bradford / Torentune

Image copyright © Chris Heaton, 2016

CC-BY-SA-2.0

Results: 3 records

view of church exterior

Source caption: "Old Church of St. James, Thornton. Known locally as 'The Old Bell Chapel', the church was built in 1612 on the site of two earlier chapels. By 1872 it had fallen into disrepair and was replaced by the new Church of St. James just across Thornton Road. Patrick Brontë was minister here from 1815 to 1820 and his children Charlotte, Patrick Branwell, Emily Jane and Anne were all born in his nearby home at 74 Market Street, Thornton during that time."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Old Church of St. James, Thornton. Known locally as 'The Old Bell Chapel', the church was built in 1612 on the site of two earlier chapels. By 1872 it had fallen into disrepair and was replaced by the new Church of St. James just across Thornton Road. Patrick Brontë was minister here from 1815 to 1820 and his children Charlotte, Patrick Branwell, Emily Jane and Anne were all born in his nearby home at 74 Market Street, Thornton during that time."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Glazzard, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Paul Glazzard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/392920] [accessed 25 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Source caption: "St. James's Church, Thornton. Large Victorian Church located on Thornton Road, roughly 5 miles west of Bradford"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. James's Church, Thornton. Large Victorian Church located on Thornton Road, roughly 5 miles west of Bradford"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Heaton, 2016
Image Source: digittal photograph taken 22 December 2016 by Chris Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5233502] [accessed 25 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context

part of the remains of Old St James' in the foreground with a north view of the Victorian church behind
Scene Description: part of the remains of Old St James' in the foreground with a north view of the Victorian church behind
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thornton_church_(3261430864).jpg] [accessed 25 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 11223THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [originally from the Old Church of St. James [aka, Old Bell Chapel]]
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Thornton Rd, Thornton Bradford BD13 3AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1274 830133
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B6145, part of Bradford since 1899, to the W of the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
There are three entries -one with multiple places- for this Thornton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE1032/thornton/] [accessed 25 October 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted in Mee (1941) as a font: "dug up in the old churchyard" [cf. Index entry for Thornton Bradford No. 2 for the Restoration font in which the Brontë sisters of literary fame were baptised]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.790181, -1.841454
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 24.65″ N, 1° 50′ 29.23″ W
UTM: 30U 576322 5960800

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941