Wybunbury

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - tracery

B02: coat of arms

INFORMATION

FontID: 01199WYB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad
Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Church Location: Main Rd, Wybunbury, Nantwich CW5 7SB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7704 338885
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the B5071, 5-6 km S of Crewe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
There is an early description of this font in Lysons (1806-1833): "octagonal, and embattled with Gothic tracery, including shields of arms". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 170, 189) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with simple motifs."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.0452, -2.4488
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 2′ 42.72″ N, 2° 26′ 55.68″ W
UTM: 30U 536952 5877441

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971