Long Marton
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - tower - north portal - tympanum
Scene Description: only the lower half remains, the patterned decoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - tower - north portal - tympanum
Scene Description: the upper part, containing the merman, dragon and cross, is very faint
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Image Source: Cop. from J.A. Cory, in Calverley (1899) reproduced in Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
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Image Source: Sketch, W.G.C., in Calverley (1899) reproduced in Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church interior - south side - chapel
Scene Description: the modern font is located in a chapel protruding on the south side (not really a transept)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] [accessed 24 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - tower - north portal - tympanum
Scene Description: the carving on the two upper stones is more noticeable in this photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin and Jean Norgate, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2010 by Martin and Jean Norgate [www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk10934.htm] [accessed 26 July 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19379MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret and St. James
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] and St. James
Church Notes: original church here pre-Conquest; church documented since 1291
Church Address: Long Marton, Cumbria, CA166JP
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Knock, S of Broom
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here? [and/or the Norman one -- cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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Druce (1915), after Allen (1887), refers to a merman or triton that appears on the 12th-century tympanum at Long Marton, "in company with a dragon", though English Heritage [Listing NY6665823992] refers to them as "possibly pre-conquest". Curwen (1932) writes: "The church of Long Marton has been always an ecclesiastical Rectory. The first mention of it occurs in the "Antique Taxatio Ecclesiastica" which was a taxation of Benefices made by the authority of Pope Nicholas IV, about the year 1291, or the 20th year of Edward I. [...] The original dedication of the church is a little uncertain." English Heritage (1968 [Listing NGR: NY6666123993] notes: "Parish church. Nave's north and west walls, with at least part of the south wall, are pre-conquest; tower added probably early C12, chancel extended C12, south chapel added mid C15 and vestry C16. restored late C19", but does not mention a font in it. The present font, located in the 15th-century chapel is modern, a plain octagonal basin on a pedestal base. The wooden font cover, octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrisses, is of an old design but appears modern [unconfirmed].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 531144 6051501
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.61, -2.5178
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 36′ 36″ N, 2° 31′ 4.08″ W
REFERENCES
- Allen, J. Romilly, Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland before the thirteenth century: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1885, London: Whiting & Co., 1887, p. 369
- Calverley, William Slater, Notes on the early sculptured crosses, shrines and monuments in the present diocese of Carlisle, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1899, p. [228]-230
- Curwen, John F., The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1932, p. 167-174