Tunstall nr. Kirkby Lonsdale / Tunestalle
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tunstall Church. The church has associations with the Bronte sisters, several of whom attended here briefly whilst at school at nearby Cowan Bridge in 1824. Charlotte Bronte probably used their experiences as inspiration for "Jane Eyre". The sisters may have eaten their lunch in the small room above the entrance porch after services."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl and Ali, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2010 by Karl and Ali [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1992925] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
![the modern font [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Boughen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Boughen, Lancashire Churches [web site [www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/tunstall.htm]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Boughen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Boughen, Lancashire Churches [web site [www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/tunstall.htm]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Boughen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Boughen, Lancashire Churches [web site [www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/tunstall.htm]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12173TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Lane, Tunstall, Lancashire, LA6 2RQ, UK
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A683, about 6 km S of Kirkby Lonsdale
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday] -- formerly Richmondshire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (three fonts from the three Domesday-time churches here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Tunstall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SD6073/tunstall/] [accessed 14 May 2014]; it includes six places and reports three churches in it. Whitaker (1823) writes of a church that replaced and earlier ones of which nothing remains; the font in the later church is "of white marble", and presumably modern. The present font here is noted in Pevsner (1969): "Font. C18 stone baluster with an eliptical marble baluster." Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) corrects the details: "An C18 marble bowl on a C19 baluster stem and pedestal." Illustrated in the Lancashire Churches web site [www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/tunstall.htm] [accessed 18 September 2006]. The roughly hemispherical basin has the usual ribbed sides, and a torus-scotia combination at the upper rim. [NB: three churches in Tunstall are recorded in the Domesday book, but we have no information on their fonts].
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1597, 2.5923
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54°09′35″N, 2°35′32″W
REFERENCES
- Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 672
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969, p. 249
- Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823, vol. 2: 275