Tow Law

INFORMATION

FontID: 15829TOW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Philip and St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. Philip & St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: Located just N of Thornley, in Weardale
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
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