Thorneyburn
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16082THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1818?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Aidan
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Aidan [aka Aedan]
Church Notes: present church 1818
Church Address: Greenhaugh, Bellingham NE48 1NA, UK -- Tel.: (01434) 220019
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A68, 6-7 km NW of Bellingham, 38 km NW of Hexham, ENE of Carlisle [the church is located 2 km beyond Greenhaugh village, N of Tarset, Greenhaugh]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Additional Comments: disused font? / disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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No entry for Thorneyburn found in the Domesday survey. The Greenhaugh and Tarset catalogue of historical maps and documents [http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/appendix1greenhaughtarset.pdf] [accessed 23 February 2010] lists a "Font in church yard, St Aidan’s, Thorneyburn" [code: Ghg_MP 053 -- date: 17/05/2004]". [NB: the church itself dates from 1818, and was restored in 1855; we have no information on the origin and present whereabouts of the font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 540055 6115114
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.183144, -2.339176
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone