Warburton
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Warburton's old church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parrot of Doom, 2008
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Warburton's modern church
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view of font
Scene Description: simple modern cover on the font replacing the late-16th century oak one
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05963WAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Werburgh [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Werburga [aka Werbyrgh, Werburgh] [Mercian abbess; † ca. 700AD]
Church Location: Old church: Wigsey Lane, Warburton, Trafford WA13 9SS -- New church: Bent Lane, Warburton, Trafford WA13 9TQ
Country Name: England
Location: Greater Manchester, North West
Directions to Site: Warburton is now part of Greater Manchester, located in its SW end, 8 km E of Warrington, at the toll of the Manchester Ship Canal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: formerly Cheshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1603?
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Church Notes: church redundant since 1971 -- new church built nearby
Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins; an inscription on it with the date 1603. Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Plain, octagonal, with an inscription and the small date 1603." Richards (1973) writes: "The octagonal font [...] is inscribed 'William Drinkwater the Keeper 1603' and its pyramidal cover '1595'. At one time the cover has been painted and gilded. In the past there has ben considerable correspondence in archaeological journals about the meaning of the font lettering, and it is reasonable to assume that it implies that Drinkwater was the gamekeeper and agent for the Warburton family." Byrne (2013) writes about this church: "Radiocarbong dating of some of the external and internal woodwork has given a date 1250-1395". The font consists of an octagonal basin with a moulded underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base, a rounded lower base and a thin quadragonal plinth; it is now located in the new church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.4021,
-2.4573
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 24′ 7.56″ N,
2° 27′ 26.28″ W
UTM: 30U 536081 5917140
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: the cover has a date inscribed in it: "1595"
Inscription Location: on the side of the font
Inscription Text: "WILLIAM DRINK / WATER THE / KEEPER / 1603"
Inscription Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: 155); Richards (1973: 340)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1595 / 16th century (late)
Material:
wood,
oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971
Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
