Shrawardine / Saleurdine / Salevrdine / Scrawardyn / Shrawarthin / Shrawurdi / Shrewardyn / Srwardin

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design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shrawardine"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Andrews, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2016 by Chris Andrews [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4967410] [accessed 12 January 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 00254SHR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Shrawardine, Shrewsbury SY4 1AH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7736 012011
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A5, N of the A458, 10 km VNW of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Baschurch [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
GET EXT PIC https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5233851 AND https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4967410
There is an entry for Shrawardine [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ3915/shrawardine/] [accessed 11 January 2023]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The 'List of illustrations' for R.W. Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. 10, (London: John Russell Smith, [1860]) [https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Eyton_Vol10.pdf] [accessed 11 January 2022] lists "4. To face page 98. Font. Shrawardine. Rev. J. Brooks, del." but the page facing p. 98 is actually blank. Noted simply as "a curious old font" in this church in Randall (1861). Baptismal font illustrated in Anderson (1864). Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Norman. Circular with scalloped underside." The round slightly tapering basin has parallel mouldings at the upper rim side, with trumpet scallops on the underbowl; raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a moulded lower base; on a narrow octagonal plinth. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ3994815278] notes: "Parish church. Nave of 1649 and chancel dated 1722, both incorporating some C12 fabric, Restored and vestry added in 1892-3 […] C12 circular stone font with scalloped bowl, moulded lower part, octagonal base and C19 iron- bound wooden cover."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.7318,
-2.89074
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 43′ 54.48″ N,
2° 53′ 26.66″ W
UTM: 30U 507378 5842442
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
Randall, John, "The Vale of Shrewsbury", XX, 2nd series (1861), The Ladies' Companion, and Monthly Magazine, 1861, pp. 24-31; r["References"]