Marbury / Marbury-cum-Quoisley / Merberie

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view of church exterior - information sign - southwest view

Scene Description: Church of St Michael and All Angels, Marbury, on the northeast shores of the Big Mere

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2006 bu Espresso Addict [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marbury_church_from_Big_Mere.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Michael, Marbury: [...] A view of the parish church from the road approaching Marbury from the south. "

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2014 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4269359] [accessed 26 August 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Michael, Marbury:[...] The nave is 16th century."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2014 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4269342] [accessed 26 August 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01444MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: 23 Wirswall Rd, Marbury, Whitchurch SY13 4LL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1948 662910
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the NE shore of the Big Mere, E of the A49, 3-4 km NNE of Whitchurch, about 25 km SSE of Chester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Warmundestrou
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: church here documented 1299; present church is 1thC, a chapel of ease to Whitchurch; became parochial 1870; modified and restored 19thC
There is an entry for Marbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ5545/marbury/] [accessed 26 August 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ5605245636] mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.0062, -2.6564
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 0′ 22.32″ N, 2° 39′ 23.04″ W
UTM: 30U 523056 5873015

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