Temple Normanton / Normantune / North Normanton

INFORMATION

FontID: 15812TEM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. James?
Church Location: [coordinates are given for the present church, said to have been built on the site of the earlier churches here
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km SE of Chesterfield
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Derby]
Historical Region: Hundred of Scarsdale [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
There are two entries for [Temple] Normanton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4167/temple-normanton/] [accessed 14 July 2015], one of which mentions a priest and a church in it. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) reports: "The church was built in 1623, and is in bad condition", which would have been a replacement of the earlier church mentioned in Domesday [cf. suprra]. Cox (1875) reports a modern font in this church, but notes that, though the lintel of the entrance to the church has the date 1623 carved on it, that date would refer to the re-building of the older church which existed "several centuries before that date". [NB: the present church is made of fiberglass and dates from 1986; earlier there was a wooden church of 1922; the original church on this site is believed to date to pre-Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]. The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes: "The church is an ancient structure, now in ruinous conditions".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.20114, -1.375705
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 12′ 4.1″ N, 1° 22′ 32.54″ W
UTM: 30U 608496 5895878

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877