Loversall / Loureshale
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Katherine's Church, Loversall. Associated with a pre-Christian well close by, a church has existed here since the late thirteenth century and probably earlier than that."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2014 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4112721] [accessed 15 November 2018]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthony Wilding, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 January 2006 by Anthony Wilding [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/112541] [accessed 15 November 2018]
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21881LOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Katherine
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Church Location: Bubup Hill, Loversall, Doncaster DN11 9DA, UK -- Tel.: +44 7958 685393
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the B1257, 4 km S of Doncaster town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: appears to have been originally a chapel of ease in the parish of Doncaster
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Loversall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5798/loversall/] [accessed 15 November 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Noted in Morris (1932): "Cup font, probably Norm[an]." Mee (1941) has: "the font may be Norman." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5761398733] notes: "Church. c1300, C15 and c1530; nave and south aisle rebuilt 1855 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. [...] Font: round base to bowl on chamfered shaft." Harman & Pevsner (2017) report a "Norman tub" font here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.482071, -1.13354
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 28′ 55.46″ N, 1° 8′ 0.74″ W
UTM: 30U 623853 5927521
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932