Hampole / Hanepole / Honepol
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21868HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1170?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Priory Church [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Address: [disappeared] [site of the disappeared priory believed to be in the village green]
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A638, about 10 km NNW of Doncaster
Historical Region: Hundred fo Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC priory church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hampole [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5010/hampole/] [accessed 8 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The priory of Hampole, of Hanepole, was founded about 1170". The entry for this priory in Historic England [http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=56150] [accessed 8 November 2018] informs: "A priory of Cistercian nuns was founded at Hampole c.1170 and dissolved in 1539 [...] There are no visible remains of the buildings, but two arches, some walls and steps, were exposed in 1925 under the outbuildings behind the house adjoining the school. Excavation by Prof. Whiting in 1937 in the long narrow field between the modern Priory grounds and Hampole Beck to the north, revealed extensive walling, apparently the eastern end of the conventual enclosure, and it was evident that the greater part of the priory lay under the village green. The convent was endowed about 1150 as a Benedictine house."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 616682 5939129
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.