Bishop Middleham / Bishop's Middleham

CC-BY-SA-2.0

Results: 4 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2012 by Les Hull [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3237802] [accessed 14 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 21 June 2007 by Donald Brydon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/473184] [accessed 14 May 2018] EXT N digital photograph taken 21 November 2012 by Les Hull [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3237802] [accessed 14 May 2018] FONT1-2 digital photograph in Tom Willoughby [www.tomwilloughby.co.uk/news/article/St_Michael_All_Angels_Church_Completion] [accessed 14 May 2018] permission + better images requested e-mail 14 May 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2007 by Donald Brydon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/473184] [accessed 14 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font

Scene Description: the repaired and reliocated font

Image Source: digital photograph in Tom Willoughby [www.tomwilloughby.co.uk/news/article/St_Michael_All_Angels_Church_Completion] [accessed 14 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font in context

Scene Description: the repaired and reliocated font

Image Source: digital photograph in Tom Willoughby [www.tomwilloughby.co.uk/news/article/St_Michael_All_Angels_Church_Completion] [accessed 14 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 11265MID

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Church Street, Bishop Middleham, Durham DL17 9AF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Durham, North East

Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Rushyford, 14 km SE of Durham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham

Historical Region: Stockton Ward

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Mackenzie & Ross (1834) as a "fine old basin of Stanhope marble. In Fordyce (1857): "The font, a fine early [sic] English font of Frosterley marble, now restored to its proper place, was in the adjacent 'Hall' garden when the work of restoration was commenced in 1842, where it had become a picturesque, moss-covered ornament." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a fine old font of Stanhope marble" in St. Michael's. The Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928) notes: "With the exception of the vestry, which is a modern addition, the whole of the building is of early 13th-century date, and though successive alterations and restorations have destroyed many of its ancient features it still retains intact its original plan and in the main its mediaeval aspect. [...] The font consists of a circular bowl of Frosterley marble 29 in. in diameter on a circular shaft and is probably of the same date as the building. The bowl of a smaller font lies on the floor at the west end of the north aisle." Noted in Pevsner (1983): "Font. C13; Frosterley marble." A posting in Tom Willoughby' construction company's web page [www.tomwilloughby.co.uk/news/article/St_Michael_All_Angels_Church_Completion] [accessed 14 May 2018] informed of completion of works at the church "including repairing and relocating an old font".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.67503, -1.4936

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 40′ 30.11″ N, 1° 29′ 36.96″ W

UTM: 30U 597136 6059672

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Frosterley or Stanhope marble)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [VCH (Durham, vol. 3, 1928: 204-212)]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-03-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Fordyce, William, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham; comprising a condensed account of its natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history […], Newcastle, London and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., 1857

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Mackenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham: comprehending the various subjects of natural, civil, and ecclesiastical geography, agriculture, mines, manufactures […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1834

Pevsner, Nikolaus, County Durham, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983