Shrewsbury No. 1 / Pengwern

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Scene Description: this font does not match Newman & Pevsner (2006) description of the font originall from High Ercall

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Shrewsbury Museums Service, 2003

Image Source: Lantern Slide, Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2006/0252)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07010SHR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 40 km W of Wolverhampton. The church is located on Wenlock Road
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period in St. Giles'. Recorded in a lantern slide at the Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2006/0252); the black & white image from the latter source is roughly cylindrical in shape, with a band of beaded tape below the upper rim, a rope moulding below, an interlace or braid combined with piping below that, and one row of irregular intersecting inverted arches; below this point the sides appear either blank, or have lost whatever decoration may have been there before; it is raised on a round-to-square lower base that appears modern, though it is damaged.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842