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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INFORMATION
FontID: 18016OFF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: High Street, Offord D'Arcy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5RH
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
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
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
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.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.282356,
-0.216676
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 16′ 56.48″ N,
0° 13′ 0.04″ W
UTM: 30U 689853 5796092
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.