Orleton nr. Stanford-on-Teme / Stanford with Orleton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07052ORL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of the A443, 12 km SE of Tenbury about 25 km WNW of Worcester [this Orleton is located about 15 km of the Orleton in the same county]
Historical Region: formerly Shropshire
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) with a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: C&H list it in the county of Shropshire; it is now in Worcs., after the county re-drawing in the mid-1970s - the other Orleton, about 15 km West of this one, has a noteworthy figural baptismal font of the same period - cf. Index entry for Orleton St. George's]. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report that this chapel was re-built in 1816-1817, but was "converted to a house c. 1972" [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the Norman font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 511
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215