Wensley No. 1 / Vensela / Wandesleye / Wanslawe / Wendeslay / Wendreslaga / Wensele / Wenslagh / Wencelagh / Wenslaw / Wencelaw / Wentreslage / Wynselawe

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13083WEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Low Ln, Wensley, Leyburn DL8 4HX, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off the A684, on the N bank of the Ure river, in Wensleydale, 2.5 km W of Leyburn, 32 km WNW of Ripon up the A6108

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan -- formerly in Richmondshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the later font

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on, and photographs of church and font

Church Notes: possible Anglo-Saxon church originally here

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Wnesley [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE0989/wensley/] [accessed 21 November 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 2014) notes: "The church of Wensley is first mentioned in 1199, and the first known patron was Niel son of Alexander. [...] The church dates from about 1240, the south chancel wall being almost intact of that date"; no font mentioned in it. A fragment probably of the basin of an earlier font, perhaps the font of Norman times; all that remains now is area around the drain-hole. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE0920789535] notes: "Church. C13, C14, C15, and 1719. [...] Octagonal font dated 1662, with contemporary wooden cover with pineapple finial." [cf. Index entry for Wensley No. 2 for the 16th/17th-century font now in use].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.3014, -1.86

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 18′ 5.04″ N, 1° 51′ 36″ W

UTM: 30U 574184 6017656

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragment

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.