Gresford / Cresford / Grefford / Gretford

Results: 6 records

B01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

on a side panel, a/p Hubbard (1986)
Scene Description: on a side panel, a/p Hubbard (1986)

B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

a/p Hubbard (1986)
Scene Description: a/p Hubbard (1986)

B03: Apostle or saint - saint

several, a/p Hubbard (1986)
Scene Description: several, a/p Hubbard (1986)

B04: angel

several, a/p Hubbard (1986)
Scene Description: several, a/p Hubbard (1986)

LB01: design element - architectural - panel - cusped

a/p Hubbard (1986)
Scene Description: a/p Hubbard (1986)

view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John S Turner, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2010 by John S Turner [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1692139] [accessed 10 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 04431GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: The Green, Wrexham, Clwyd LL12 8RG, United Kingdom
Country Name: Wales
Location: Wrexham
Directions to Site: Located about 6 km N of Wrexham on the A483
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Asaph
Historical Region: Hundred of Bromfield -- formerly Denbighshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Font Notes:
A church at "Gretford" is reported in the Domesday survey. The present baptismal font is described in Hubbard (1986) as having its basin panels ornamented with "the Virgin and Child the lion of St Mark, saints and angels. Ribbed patterns below and cusped panels in the stem"; dates it to the late-15th century. The font and its iconographic programme are studied in detail in Gray (2013). [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.088, -2.9773
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 5′ 16.8″ N, 2° 58′ 38.28″ W
UTM: 30U 501520 5882060

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Gray, Madeleine, "'The Heavens and All the Powers Therein': The Iconography of the Font of All Saints, Gresford, in its Political Context", The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages: Essays on Mediaeval Fonts, Settings and Beliefs, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013
Hubbard, Edward, Clwyd (Denbigshire and Flintshire), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1986