Thornborough / Thornborowe / Tornburuwe / Torneberge
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Smith, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2007 by Andrew Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/337732] [accessed 26 January 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17305THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, Thornborough, Buckinghamshire MK18 2DF
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A421, 6 km E of Buckingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Thornborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7433/thornborough/] [accessed 26 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) reports: "the font is large and plain". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The earliest mention of the church of Thornborough is the grant of it made by Hamo son of Meinfelin to Luffield Priory in the reign of Henry II [i.e., 1154-1189] [...] Some herring-bone masonry in the south wall of the nave indicates the existence of a church here in the 12th century consisting of the present nave and probably a small chancel [...] The font is modern." [NB: Sheahan (ibid.) reports that the church "underwent considerable repairs and restorations" in 1860, but does not indicate whether the font he saw and reported was modern or not].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 59′ 45.19″ N,
0° 55′ 09.24″ W
UTM: 30U 642926 5762740
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862