Welbury / Welberga / Welleberge / Wellebergh / Wethergh
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22459WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Tofts Ln, Welbury, Northallerton DL6 2SE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1609 882268
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A19, 13 km NNE of Northallerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Allerton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Welbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ3902/welbury/] [accessed 6 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "Walter de Ingram gave the church of Welbury, with its 2 oxgangs of land and dwelling-house, to Guisborough Priory [...] probably at or soon after its foundation by Robert de Brus in 1129. [...] The church probably dates from the 12th century, but the chancel has been entirely rebuilt and the nave has been so much modernized that there is no detail to give its date beyond a piece of 12th-century carved stone now preserved in the north wall"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ3999502208] notes: "Church. Medieval in origin, mostly rebuilt by Hicks in 1887"; it mentions no font in it. The Welbury web site [www.welbury.com/history] [accessed 6 December 2019] claims: "a church founded in 1129 with 9th Century features".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 604707 6030939
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.