Tankersley / Tancresleia
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tankersley St Peter's Primary School, 2018
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21904TAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Black Lane, Tankersley, Sheffield S74 0DT, UK -- Tel.: (01226) 744140
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B6096, S of the A61, W of the M1, 8 km S of Barnsley, 11 km NW of Rotherham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Staincross -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present base appears modern) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Tankersley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3499/tankersley/] [accessed 27 November 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 10 December 1852 visit to this church (in Butler, 2997) reports: "The font is octagonal and plain." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK3495099586] notes: "Church. C14 and C15, north aisle wall rebuilt 1881"; it mentions no font in it but adds, "C19 roofs and fittings." The octagonal basin with moulded sides may be of the present church period, but the base and the cover appear modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 601187 5928036
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.49155, -1.4748
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 29′ 29.58″ N, 1° 28′ 29.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: round flat base on which four thick scroll ribs around a turned pivot; tall metal (?) finial; modern
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 401