Horsley nr. Rochester
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view of church exterior - porch - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "In the porch, and I love the way it takes up residence with a traffic cone, is a Roman altar. Apparently it comes from Featherwood, 3½ miles north of the fort at Rochester, and is dedicated to Victory and Peace."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2015 by Northernvicar [www.northernvicar.co.uk/2015/07/24/horsley-holy-trinity/] [accessed 19 February 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity Church, Horsley Village. 'Built in the Neo-Norman style by John & Benjamin Green in 1844.'"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Russel Wills, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2018 by Russel Wills [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5762208] [accessed 19 February 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is at the far [west] end, right [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190219006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is at the far [west] end, right [north] side
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view of font and cover in context
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view of object - Roman altar
![Source caption: "In the porch [...] is a Roman altar. Apparently it comes from Featherwood, 3½ miles north of the fort at Rochester, and is dedicated to Victory and Peace."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190219008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "In the porch [...] is a Roman altar. Apparently it comes from Featherwood, 3½ miles north of the fort at Rochester, and is dedicated to Victory and Peace."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northernvicar, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2015 by Northernvicar [www.northernvicar.co.uk/2015/07/24/horsley-holy-trinity/] [accessed 19 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15882HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: 2 Fernley Cottages, Horsley, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 0NT, UK -- Tel.: +44 1661 823406
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located off the A68, SE of Rochester, 16 km W of Newcastle, 16 E of Hexham, in the Northumberland National Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1844?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Church Notes: present church mid-19thC in neo-Norman style
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1957) as a neo-Norman font in this 19th-century church [NB: no earlier church known in this location, but the porch houses a Roman altar from a nearby fort -- cf. ImagesArea]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.989, -1.855
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 59′ 20.4″ N, 1° 51′ 18″ W
UTM: 30U 573262 6094167
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957