Wickersley / Wicresleia
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Alban's Church in Wickersley. A church is believed to have stood in Wickersley since 1150. Frickley Hall (Ward Aldam) papers (1419) refer to the ‘Lamp of St Nicholas’ on the steeple directing travellers between Rotherham and Roche Abbey."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2014 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4233640] [accessed 4 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21912WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Albans
Church Patron Saints: St. Alban [aka Albanus]
Church Location: Church Ln, Wickersley, Rotherham S66 1ES, UK -- Tel.: +44 1709 543111
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the A631-B6060 crossroads, 5 km from Rotherham town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: original church probably ca. 1150; documented since 1240; re-built 15thC; demolished 1832-1833; re-built
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wickersley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4791/wickersley/] [accessed 4 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for Wickersley in Ella S. Armitage's A Key to English Antiquities: With Special Reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham District (Sheffield: William Townsend, 1897, p. 302), reports: "Ancient church has been destroyed, and rebuilt in churchwarden Gothic in 1832; the only part spared being the tower, which is of early Perp. style." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK4783491666] notes: "Church. C15 and C19. [...] The rest of the C15 church was demolished in 1833"; it mentions no font in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.419951, -1.283728
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 25′ 11.83″ N, 1° 17′ 1.42″ W
UTM: 30U 614054 5920360