Gresford / Cresford / Grefford / Gretford

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Font image
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

Font ID: 04431GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: The Green, Wrexham, Clwyd LL12 8RG, United Kingdom
Site Location: Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
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

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

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, p. 105-128
  • Hubbard, Edward, Clwyd (Denbigshire and Flintshire), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1986, p. 170