Ludlow / Lude / Ludelau / Ludelaw

INFORMATION

FontID: 04786LUD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [formerly collegiate church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located at the mouth of the Corve river, 35-50 km S of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
The Salopian Shreds and Patches (issue for June 8, 1881:186) reports a visit to this church, where, in the "chapel on the south side there is a quaint font". Timmins (1899) notes: "the ancient font, a strange, archaic-looking stone vessel, large, plain and bowl-shaped, and bearing traces of the days when it did duty as a watering trough somewhere in the vicinity." Described in Hutton (1957) as a large Norman font which was "rescued from use as a water-trough." In Newman & Pevsner (2006): "C12.Completely plain round bowl." [NB: a font "of Painswick stone, supported on Purbeck marble shafts, with an elaborate canopy on the top, and carved crockets and finial" was reported in the newly consecrated Church of St. John the Baptist, in The Salopian Shreds and Patches (ibid.)]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899