Thornton in Lonsdale / Tornetun / Torntun
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John S Turner, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2009 by John S Turner [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1502821] [accessed 6 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22574THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Location: New Rd, Thornton, Carnforth LA6 3PB, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located N of the A65, 2 km N of Ingleton, 8 km SE of Kirkby Lonsdale, near the Cumbria and Lancs borders [the civil parish was partly in in Lancs but chiefly in NYrks]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale [in part]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: 15thC tower; re-built ca. 1870; damaged by fire 1933; re-built soon thereafter; restored 2019
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is a multiple-place entry for Thornton [in Lonsdale] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD6773/thornton-in-lonsdale/] [accessed 6 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in Whitaker (1823) identifies the earlier fabric of the church as early-Norman [he would have seen the church before the 19th-century re-building]; he mentions no font in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD6857173618] mentions no font in it, either.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.1574,
-2.4827
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 9′ 26.64″ N,
2° 28′ 57.72″ W
UTM: 30U 533781 6001158