Upton Cressett No. 2 / Ultone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals

Scene Description: tall narrow arches all around

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Scene Description: in every other spandrel and part of the spaces between rim and arcade [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted

Scene Description: in every other spandrel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: does not appear in the old engraving in Anderson (1864); is this part of the base modern, like the plinth?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2007 by John M [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/423560] [accessed 24 October 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: photograph taken in August 1997 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2246528] [accessed 24 October 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2007 by John M [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/424975] [accessed 24 October 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: note that the lower rope moulding does not appear in this drawing, which means it it is likely modern

view of font

Scene Description: the old font showing the lead lining folding atop; the shape of the font is rather irregular; the lower rope moilding and the plinth are modern additions

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 1998 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: seen through the south portal

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the foreground, left side, in this view of the interior of the church, the nave, looking east towards the chancel

Image Source: digital image of a 1832 pencil on paper drawing attributed to Henry Harris Lines. From the Lines family sketchbook, in the collection of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, England [ref.: BIRSA:2007X.508] Reproduced in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lines_family_sketchbook_-_Upton_Crescett_022.jpg [accessed 24 October 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01041UPT

Church/Chapel: Parish Curch of St. Michael [redundant and deconsecrated]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael (?) [no advocation found given in Crockford's]

Church Location: Upton Cressett, Shropshire WV16 6UH

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A458, S of Morville, 8 km W of Bridgnorth, near the Upton Cressett Hall

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Alnodestreu

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, near the entranceway

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Church Notes: Small Norman church with a single nave and square apse, next to Upton Cressett Hall, the old manor house -- redundant since 1970; now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Upton [Cressett] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO6592/upton-cressett/] [accessed 8 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font in Upton Cressett is illustrated in a 1832 pencil on paper drawing attributed to Henry Harris Lines. In Anderson (1864). Described in Timmins (1899): "The font is of a peculiar shape, like an urn, with slender, rounded arches incised upon it, and rude cable mouldings." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period ornamented with cable motif. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006) as Norman, "not well carved". On-site notes: tub-shaped basin, wider at the top and irregular in shape; rope moulding at the upper rim, below which is a blind arcade of round arches with capitals but no bases; there is an inverted fleur-de-lis motif in every other spandrel; the rest of the space between the upper rim moulding and arches is filled with nested chevron pattern; the basin well is lead lined and has a central drain; the lower end of the basin has a rope moulding as well, but this appears to be a modern addition, like the tall circular plinth [NB: in Anderson's engraving, though, there is no rope moulding at the bottom of the basin, and the font rests directly on the ground, without the present round plinth either]. [NB: cf. Index entry for Upton Cresset No. 1 for a second font, probably 15th or 16th century, located in the gardens of the Hall]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.528555, -2.508794

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 42.8″ N, 2° 30′ 31.66″ W

UTM: 30U 533323 5819942

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 7-10 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 67-69 cm

Basin Depth: 28 cm

Basin Total Height: 66 cm

Height of Base: 7 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 91 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006

Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928