Marsden / Marchdene / Marches Dene

Image and permission received form the author

Results: 6 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern font in the modern church of St. Bartholomew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2016 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the modern church of St. Bartholomew was built in 1895; the tower was added in 1911

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2015 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Bartholomew,_Marsden_(17121556754).jpg] [accessed 8 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the modern church of St. Bartholomew was built in 1895; the tower was added in 1911

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2009 by Tim Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Bartholomew,_Marsden_1_(3272797404).jpg] [accessed 8 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - west end

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the modern church of St. Bartholomew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2016 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the modern church of St. Bartholomew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2016 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the modern church of St. Bartholomew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2016 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author

INFORMATION

FontID: 21811MAR

Church/Chapel: [Chapel of ease]

Church Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Marsden is located 11-12 km W of Huddersfield. "The site of these chapels was over the road from the present church, and some of the foundations and gravestones can still be seen" [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of the modern font.

Church Notes: church here documented 1480, probably a chapel of ease; new church built 1758; present church is late-19thC (1895, with 1911 tower), with earlier church site nearby [source: https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/trees-listing-and-conservation/pdf/conservation-appraisals/Marsden.pdf] [accessed 8 September 2018]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Marsden in the Domesday survey. A document from the Marsden Local History Group [https://web.archive.org/web/20070219055422/http://www.marsdenhistory.co.uk/church and chapel.html] [accessed 8 September 2018] notes: "In the time of Henry VI (15th Century), Marsden was in the parishes of Huddersfield and Almondbury. Because of the distances involved for the inhabitants of the village to attend worship, a Chapel-of-Ease was built. The Chapel held 311 people and the priest was paid for by the villagers. It had fallen into decay by 1480, the people being unable to afford its upkeep, so Edward IV gave an endowment of 4 Marks, which enabled the church in Marsden to continue [...] A new chapel was built on the same site in 1758 [...] The site of these chapels was over the road from the present church, and some of the foundations and gravestones can still be seen [...] Money was collected for 40 years for the building of a new church, and it was built in 1895. The old chapel was sold for £60, and pulled down. [...] The Present Church of St Bartholomews [...] The nave and aisle were finished in 1895, the chancel and lady chapel in 1899, and the church bell was donated in 1895 by Joseph Crowther, the local millowner. The tower was built in 1911".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 570799 5939701