Wortley / Wirtleie / Wrleia
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Brian Webster [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2257373] [accessed 5 December 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21914WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: 5 Wortley Village, Wortley, Sheffield S35 7DB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1226 744140
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A629 [aka Halifax Rd], SW of Barnsley, NNW of Sheffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Staincross -- formerly WRYrks
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: originally 13thC (?) chapel of ease to Tankersley; present church chiefly 18th and 19thC
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There are two entries for Wortley [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3099/wortley/] [accessed 5 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK3072299393] notes: "Church. Of medieval origin, tower rebuilt by John Platt in 1753-4[...] rest rebuilt c1815 and later in C19."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.49028, -1.5379
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 29′ 25.01″ N, 1° 32′ 16.44″ W
UTM: 30U 597004 5927807