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view of church exterior - east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "East Window of St. Wilfrid's, Gt Langton. Pevsner describes this window as: "A fine english gothic east window with an uncommon variety of reticulated tracery. The reticulation units are quatrefoils with ogee top and bottom.""

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2009 by Matthew Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1106966] [accessed 19 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "North Door, St. Wilfrid's. 12th C doorway, now blocked, with small chamfered lintel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2009 by Matthew Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1106977] [accessed 19 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 January 2009 by Matthew Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1106991] [accessed 19 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption:"St.Wilfrid's, Langton. Situated down the end of a track, between the villages of Great & Little Langton, this plain looking church has some ancient features, although it has been Victorianised."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2009 by Matthew Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1106944] [accessed 19 November 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22447LAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid

Church Patron Saints: St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]

Church Location: Great Langton, Northallerton DL7 0TG, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off the B6271, between Scorton and Northallerton, 6-8 km NW of the latter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: , [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Great] Langton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE2996/great-langton/] [accessed 18 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of ST. WILFRID [...] lies among the fields to the south of the village, but at some distance both from it and from the hall. [...] The nave was built about 1140, the entrance doorways in the north and south walls being the only remaining details of that date; the former has since been blocked up and the rest of the details have been modernized [...] The font has an old round bowl, but it has been recut; the stem and base are modern, as is the rest of the furniture." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3020496152] notes: "Church. C12 nave, C13 chancel altered in C14, C19 south porch and north vestry"; no font mentioned in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.35949, -1.5364

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 21′ 34.16″ N, 1° 32′ 11.04″ W

UTM: 30U 595107 6024507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round [re-cut]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round [re-cut]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.