Dawley / Dalelie / Dawley Magna / Great Dawley

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted

Scene Description: in the spandrels created by the ribbed panels around the basin

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: inscribed in a raised decorative band all around

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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symbol - tree - Tree of life

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed

Image Source: photograph taken 1 October 1989 by Tim Marlow

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2011 by Sue Adair [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2482247] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Source caption: "The sandstone church of the Holy Trinity in Dawley was built 1845 and was designed by Harvey Eginton of Worcester. It replaced Dawley's old Norman church which stood a little to the south-east of the present church. The earliest part of the church is probably its font, which dates back to the Norman period (12th-century)."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The sandstone church of the Holy Trinity in Dawley was built 1845 and was designed by Harvey Eginton of Worcester. It replaced Dawley's old Norman church which stood a little to the south-east of the present church. The earliest part of the church is probably its font, which dates back to the Norman period (12th-century)."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2011 by Sue Adair [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2482244] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07000DAW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1186-1187?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut], Medieval [altered]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity

Church Address: Old Vicarage Road, Dawley, Telford, Dawley, Shropshire, TF4 3NH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1952 595915

Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located now in Telford, 1-2 km SW of its town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Historical Region: Hundred of Wrockwardine

Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut [e-mailed churchwarden for image of this font (26 April 2010) -- never replied] -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Dawley [Magna] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ6806/dawley-magna/] [accessed 2 November 2014], and it reports one priest in it; there is no mention of a church, though there probably was one here. Anderson (1864) notes that Dawley church, was "founded probably in the latter half of the 12th century". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 11, 1985) notes: "Architectural evidence and reference to a priest of Dawley in 1186-7 [ cf. Domesday entry supra] suggest that there was a chapel at Great Dawley before the end of the 12th century. [...] The ancient parish church, whose dedication has not been traced, [...] stood a little south-east of the church of the Holy Trinity, which replaced it. Only the 12th-century font and several 18th-century monumental inscriptions survive from the former building." Newman & Pevsner (2006) write: "Font. A remarkable Norman piece, if re-cut. Tub-shaped. Chevron decoration at the foot and rim. On the bowl big gadrooned panels. The only more elaborate carving is the Tree of Life on one side, with large drooping leaves." The font now stands on a modern two-step plinth.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Marlow for his photographs of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 536249 5833963

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.654417, -2.464133

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 39′ 15.9″ N, 2° 27′ 50.88″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 142
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 635