Grindon nr. Stockton upon Tees

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17965GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury [in ruins]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The site is located approximately 9 km NNW of Stockton upon Tees, 2-3 km off the road between Stockton and Durham city, to the W of the Wynyard estate
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Durham]
Historical Region: Stockton Ward
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (of the 12th-century church?)
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928) notes: "There is not, and apparently has never been, a village of Grindon. The ruins of the old church of St. Thomas of Canterbury stand on a road which crosses the parish from west to east and becomes a path leading through Wynyard Park to the seat of the Marquess of Londonderry. Wynyard Park [...] The oldest part of the structure is the chancel arch and part of the walls of the chancel, which are of 12th-century date, but the church was rebuilt, apparently on the old plan, by Bishop Pudsey [i.e., Hugh Pudsey or Hugh de Puiset (1125?-1195), bishop of Durham] at the end of the same century, and the whole of the nave is of this date, its style being distinctly Transitional." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 604274 6053928
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.622, -1.385
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 37′ 19.2″ N, 1° 23′ 6″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.