Firbeck
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richaed Croft, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2005 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/55730] [accessed 7 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 21864FIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin [formerly St Peter's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours [formerly St. Peter]
Church Location: New Road, Firbeck, Worksop S81 8LN, UK -- Tel.: 07774 675063
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A634-B6463, just W of Oldcotes, 15-20 km ESE of Rotherham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth
Century and Period: 15th century (lat?), Perpendicular
Church Notes: earlier (1482?) church; demolished and re-built 1820
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Firbeck in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5621688460] notes: "Church. Rebuilt 1820, north aisle added 1844, enlarged 1887 for Henry Gladwyn Jebb by E. I. Hubbard of Rotherham, tower added 1900"; there is no mention of a font in it. Harman & Pevsner (2017) report a font "Neo-Norman, arcaded, 1887" in the re-built church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3899, -1.156
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 23.64″ N, 1° 9′ 21.6″ W
UTM: 30U 622628 5917229