Thornhill nr. Wakefield / Torni

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view of church exterior - southwest view
INFORMATION
FontID: 11237THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [aka St Michael and All Angels']
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Church Lane, Thornhill, Dewsbury WF12 0JZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1924 465329
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A644, 3 km S of Dewsbury, 10 km from Wakefield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Agbrigg - formerly WRYrks
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Thornhill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2418/thornhill/] [accessed 30 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Mee (1941) writes: "the modern font has a cover like a crown." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes "Ten Anglo-Saxon items have been recorded here, see Collingwood 1915, and Coatsworth 2008, 256-265. The monuments and pre-Conquest stone are well displayed in the north chapel, the Savile chapel. The building is largely 15th century but the nave was rebuilt in 1777 and 1877." [NB: the church was rebuilt in the 19th century, whence the font, but the original church goes back to the Domesday time; we have no information on the earlier font(s)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.6655, -1.618
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 55.8″ N, 1° 37′ 4.8″ W
UTM: 30U 591312 5947193
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-11-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941