Tow Law
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15829TOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Philip and St. James
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Philip & St. James
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Thornley, in Weardale
Font Notes:
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Fordyce (1857) reports: "the present baptismal font was presented by Lady F. Fitzclarence; and the basement of the original one, which was of Frosterley marble, lies in the church-yard, the pillar and basin having been removed to the church school-room at Tow Law." The Tow Law Deerness and District History Society website [http://www.historysociety.org.uk/church.htm] [accessed 13 January 2010], in its brief history of the Church of St. Philip and St. James, Tow Law, mentions a font cover installed by the parishioners in the memory of the Rev. John Michael, who died on 19 November 1911, but there is no mention of the font itself.
REFERENCES
- Fordyce, William, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham; comprising a condensed account of its natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history […], Newcastle, London and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., 1857, vol. 1: 635