Gorton / Goreton
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the modern church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2010 by RGoodman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James_Church_Gorton_Winter.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19374GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: St. James' Chapel [originally St Thomas'?]
Church Patron Saints: [originally St. Thomas?]
Church Location: Cambert Ln, Gorton, Manchester, Gorton, Greater Manchester, M18 8HF
Country Name: England
Location: Greater Manchester, North West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ESE of Manchester city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Manchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Salford
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church Notes: present church is mid-19thC iteration of a thatched builing of the late 15thC
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Gorton in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 4: 1911) notes: "The origin of S[t]. J[ames]'S C[hapel] is unknown. It existed in 1562 [...] In 1755 the chapel was rebuilt, [...] and again in 1871. A district chapelry was assigned to it in 1839. [...] The registers date from 1570." [NB: we have no information on the early font here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.465314, -2.172491
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 27′ 55.13″ N, 2° 10′ 20.97″ W
UTM: 30U 554935 5924354
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-07-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.