Warcop
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2011 by John Darch [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2221866] [accessed 29 July 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19393WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Columba [aka St. Columbe, Combe]
Church Patron Saint(s): [not St. Columba; Columbe, 6thC apostle of the Picts, not canonised in Rome]
Church Address: Warcop, Cumbria, CA16 6NX
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B6259
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: North Westmorland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Curwen (1932) finds the advowson of this church appear in 1289 in the Records in the Tower of London, and the church is valuen in the ""Antique Taxatio Ecclesiastica" of Pope Nicholas IV, made in the year 1291". English Heritage [Listing NGR: NY7429115705] (1957) notes: "Parish Church, dating from C12 with later additions and alterations", but mentions no font in it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 538900 6043326
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.536, -2.3988
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 32′ 9.6″ N, 2° 23′ 55.68″ W
REFERENCES
- Curwen, John F., The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1932, p. 227-236 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43515] [accessed 29 July 2014]