Tong nr. Bradford / Tuinc

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "St James' Church, Tong. Built as the estate church for the Tempest family of Tong Hall. The Church had box pews, including the squire's pew with fireplace. There is also a Jacobean Three decker pulpit. During archaeological excavations in the 1970s evidence of Saxon work was found."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James' Church, Tong. Built as the estate church for the Tempest family of Tong Hall. The Church had box pews, including the squire's pew with fireplace. There is also a Jacobean Three decker pulpit. During archaeological excavations in the 1970s evidence of Saxon work was found."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Betty Longbottom, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2007 by Betty Longbottom [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/352208] [accessed 16 October 2018]
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view of font and cover

the 18thC font and cover
Scene Description: the 18thC font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2015 by Rita Wood, in the CRSBI (2018) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1451/] [accessed 16 October 2018]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 21842TON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: the mid-12thC church here may have been the second church in this site; re-built 18thC.
Church Address: Tong Ln, Tong Village, Bradford BD4 0RR, UK -- Tel.: 01274 682100
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A650, now in Bradford metropolitan district, and 8 km from its city centre, 10-12 km WSW of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales [formerly York, Bradford, Ripon]
Historical Region: Hundred of Morley -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Tong [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2130/tong/] [accessed 16 October 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The CRSBI (2018) reports an 18th-century font here beneath the west gallery. No font mentioned in the entry for this church in Ryder (1993). [NB: we have no information on the font of the Norman church here]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 587715 5958882
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.77115, -1.6691
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 46′ 16.14″ N, 1° 40′ 8.76″ W

REFERENCES

  • Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
  • Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993, p. 88 and fig. 168