Tong nr. Bradford / Tuinc

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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

Scene Description: the 18thC font and cover

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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

FontID: 21842TON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Tong Ln, Tong Village, Bradford BD4 0RR, UK -- Tel.: 01274 682100
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
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
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: the mid-12thC church here may have been the second church in this site; re-built 18thC.
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

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

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. Accessed: 2018-10-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Ryder, Peter, Medieval churches of West Yorkshire, [Leeds?]: West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993