Tinsley / Tirneslauue

INFORMATION

FontID: 21907TIN
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Leonard [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: The modern church is located off (E) the A631 and the M1, NE of Sheffield, SW of Rotherham
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Medieval
Church Notes: present church of 1879 replaced an earlier (17th/18thC) building, itself a replacement for the original pre-Conquest (?) Chapel of St. Leonard
There is an entry for Tinsley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4090/tinsley/] [accessed 28 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. [NB: we have no informatin on the font of the medieval church/chapel here].