Tinsley / Tirneslauue

INFORMATION

Font ID: 21907TIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Lawrence [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: present church of 1879 replaced an earlier (17th/18thC) building, itself a replacement for the original pre-Conquest (?) Chapel of St. Leonard
Church Address: 247 St Lawrence Rd, Tinsley, Sheffield S9 1WG, United Kingdom
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church/chapel here)
Font Notes:
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. According to data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842 collected by GENUKI [https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Rotherham/ChurchCol_Tinsley] [accessed 20 October 2025], "The ancient parochial Church or Chapel (says Thoresby) of St. Lawrence, at Tinsley, having all its endowment taken away (except £4. 18s.) about the time of Henry VIII., has been decayed and rained for many years. The Hon. Thomas Wentworth rebuilt this Church in 1710 [...] A Chantry, called St. Leonard's, was founded in this Church." [NB: we have no informatin on the font of the medieval church/chapel here].