Whiston nr. Rotherham / Widestan / Witestan
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2012
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Whiston Parish Church, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Parish site [www.whiston-parish-church.org.uk/100_8078.JPG] [accessed 5 June 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Whiston Parish Church, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.whiston-parish-church.org.uk/100_8078.JPG] [accessed 5 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 18053WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene [aka St. James']
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Rectory Drive, Whiston, Rotherham S60 4JG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A618-A631 crossroads, 3 km SE of Rotherham (and now a suburb of it), 12 km from Sheffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield [earlier in the diocese of York?]
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- oformerly WRYrks -- originally in Hallamshire
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photograph of this church
Church Notes: chapel of ease to the Church at Ecclesfield, Sheffield, documented ca. 1188; dedication to St. James appears to have been used for this church in the 18thC and 19thC, but St Mary Magdalene's is believed to be the original dedication
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Whiston [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4490/whiston/] [accessed 4 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK4510590025] notes: "Church. C12 west window now built into east wall of C13 tower, south doorway also C13; south wall rebuilt C15; extensive rebuilding of 1881-83 by John Oldrid Scott including addition of new nave and chancel to north of old axis; south porch, vestry and part of tower also of this date"; a font is not mentioned in it. The Parish web site informs: "The earliest record of a church here is 1180 [with the first rector being appointed in 1237]. The present building is a mixture of 12th, 13th and 19th century." The present font appears to be a modern one.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.40558, -1.3235
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 24′ 20.09″ N, 1° 19′ 24.6″ W
UTM: 30U 611449 5918699
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?