Ellesmere / Ellesmeles
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2009 by J Scott [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2094868] [accessed 27 March 2013]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ellesmere Parish Church
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.ellesmere.org.uk/about-st-marys/] [accessed 7 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05248ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1569
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Post-Reformation / Tudor / Elizabethan
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Street, Ellesmere, Shropshire, SY12 0HB
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km ENE of Oswestry, up the A495
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? (including a possible Anglo-Saxon one?) / re-carved font? (the 1569 one?)
Font Notes:
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Anderson (1864) writes: "That Ellesmere was originally a Saxon collegiate church is evident from the mention of two priests in the Domesday description of the manor". Noted in Romilly Allen (1888) as a font dated 1569. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a post-Reformation font dated 1569. Included in Bond (1908) among fonts dated to the reign of Elizabeth I, this one to 1569. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note that the font in the north aisle of Ellesmere church is a 19th-century replacement of the 1569 font; the modern font is described as being in the Perpendicular style, "with small square panels of Christ's Passion". English Heritage Listing NGR: SJ3460438432 [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-260810-church-of-st-mary-ellesmere-rural-] [accessed 7 January 2013] reports a "panelled octagonal font (1826)" in this church. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the 16th-century font or the earlier medieval one(s)]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 507432 5861986
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9075, -2.8895
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 54′ 27″ N, 2° 53′ 22.2″ W
REFERENCES
- Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; p. 164fn
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 416
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 265
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 173
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 263