Harley / Harlege

INFORMATION

FontID: 07002HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A458, 10 km SW of Shewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Anderson (1864) writes in his entry for Harley Church: "originally a chapel, founded probably about the middle of the twelfth century". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Plain C12 tub."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006