Offord Darcy / Offord Dacye / Offord D'Arcy / Offord Daynes / Oforde Daerssy / Opeford / Ufford / Ufforde Deneys, Daneys, Danes or Darcy / Upford / Upperfordia
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Shaun Ferguson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1655860] [accessed 25 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18016OFF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: The GENUKI web site [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/OffordDarcy/] [accessed 25 April 2012] reports: "The church is still consecrated, but not used". The church is now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Church Address: High Street, Offord D'Arcy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5RH
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located adjacent to Offord Cluny, 5 km from Godmanchester, 7 km NE of St. Neots
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1130 church?)
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but by 1130 a small church consisting of a chancel, nave of two bays and north aisle existed here [...] The font is modern." [NB: we have no information on the font of the ca. 1130 church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 689853 5796092
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.282356, -0.216676
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 16′ 56.48″ N, 0° 13′ 0.04″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.