Shincliffe

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - west tower

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17955SHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: High Street, Shincliffe, Durham DH1 2NJ
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: Located on the A177, 2 km SE of Durham city
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mr. Richard Bimson, churchwarden at Shincliffe St. Mary's, for his photographs of the modern font here
Church Notes: St. Mary's was built in 1851, but a chapel-of-ease existed here since 1826
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].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 593304 6069049

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-03-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.