Shincliffe
Image copyright © Richard Bimson, 2012
Image and permission received (email of 10 March 2012)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Bimson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2012 by Richard Bimson for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 10 March 2012)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Bimson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2012 by Richard Bimson for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 10 March 2012)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Bimson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2012 by Richard Bimson for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 10 March 2012)
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © davewebster14, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2008 by davewebster14 [www.flickr.com/photos/davewebster14/3020153010/] [accessed 8 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17955SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: St. Mary's was built in 1851, but a chapel-of-ease existed here since 1826
Church Address: High Street, Shincliffe, Durham DH1 2NJ
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A177, 2 km SE of Durham city
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (is this the Durham font?)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Shincliffe in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928) entry for St. Mary the Less in Durham notes that the original church there was 12th-century "but was almost entirely rebuilt in 1846–7 [...] The font [...] is modern." The British Listed Buildings database entry for this church [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-109976-church-of-st-mary-shincliffe] [accessed 8 March 2012] reports: "C19 octagonal stone font with foliage carving" [there is no mention of an earlier font from Durham city -- the font received from Durham St. Mary's must have been the mid-19th century one].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mr. Richard Bimson, churchwarden at Shincliffe St. Mary's, for his photographs of the modern font here
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 593304 6069049
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.