Wombwell / Wanbella / Wanbuelle

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Results: 6 records

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a late-medieval font? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: of the Victorian font

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church. There has been a church on this site in the centre of the town since the 12th century. The present church was built between 1896 and 1914."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 January 2012 by Graham Hogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2761936] [accessed 4 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: notice the Victorian font in the back, and the older font (?), visible only partially on the right, forefront

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the Victorian font

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the later modern font

Image Source: digital photograph in the Wombwell Parish website [http://www.wombwellparish.co.uk/home.html] [accessed 24 July 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13064WOM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church St, Wombwell, Barnsley S73 0DQ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1226 211100

Country Name: England

Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B6096, N of the A6195, 6-8 km SE of Barnsley, 10 km N of Sheffield

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield

Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks

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

Century and Period: , Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of these fonts.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Bombwell [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3903/wombwell/] [accessed 4 December 2018] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Glynne (in Butler, 2007) reported only a modern font in his 5 December 1862 visit to this church. The Wombwell Parish website [http://www.wombwellparish.co.uk/home.html] [accessed 24 July 2007] informs: "The Old font is in the baptistry which is now the front of the church [...] The new font is perhaps more versatile than the old one. It is, of course, portable and can be moved to wherever it is needed. Baptisms generally take place within the main service on Sundays. The lid of the font [...] has a metal designed 'handle' in the form of a dove flying downwards and represents the Holy Spirit". There are indeed two fonts, one very recent, the other appears to be 19th-century. There may be a third font not mentioned in the website, located in the W end, N side: it appears octagonal and, perhaps, late medieval, the polygonal basin decorated with a graded moulding down the sides [cf. ImageArea]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4004602906] notes: "Church. 1896-1914, several builds. [...] Some remains of the earlier medieval church include a C12 scalloped capital in nave west wall and C15 piscina in chancel at south-east end."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5217, -1.397

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 31′ 18.12″ N, 1° 23′ 49.2″ W

UTM: 30U 606273 5931503

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007