Wormhill / Wruenele

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret's church, Wormhill - interior"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ruth Sharville, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2012 by Ruth Sharville [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3125806] [accessed 15 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15677WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [formerly a chapel]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Wormhill, Buxton SK17 8SL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1298 871317
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km WSW of Tideswell, 6 km E of Buxton, in the High Peak district
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackwell [Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: 13thC chapel; re-built and enlarged 1864; modified 1904-1910
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wormhill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK1274/wormhill/] [accessed 15 May 2022] as having bo recorded population at the time. Cox (1875-1877) notes that the "plain and circular" font that existed in this church "seems to have disappeared at the restoration (?) in 1864, for there is now a small modern octagon in the church." Kelly's Directory of 1891, however, appears to introduce yet another modern font, that Cox would not have seen at the time of his visit: "a font of Sicilian, Kynance and Derbyshire marbles, recently (1890) placed in the church as a memorial to the Rev. A. Bagshawe, for forty years the vicar of this parish". Yet a later font is described in Wishful Thinking [https://places.wishful-thinking.org.uk/DBY/Wormhill/Wormhill_Church.html] [accessed 15 May 2022]: "Presented more recently in memory of Captain Leonard Vale Bagshawe, killed in action in 1915, was the oak cover of the white marble font. Just one hundred years old, the font is supported on four pillars of dark marble, with four winged cherubs peeping out from beneath its bowl." This church is listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK1245574182] without a mention of a font in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.264203, -1.814658
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 51.13″ N, 1° 48′ 52.77″ W
UTM: 30U 579061 5902317
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Kelly, Directory of the counties of Derbs, Notts, Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891