Selattyn

Image copyright © Diocese of Lichfield, Parish of Selattyn, 2009

Permission received (e-mail from Revd. Adrian Bailey Jan. 10, 2010)

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diocese of Lichfield, Parish of Selattyn, 2009

Image Source: photograph in http://www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/oswestry/selattyn/newpics/font.jpg [accessed 7 January 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail from Revd. Adrian Bailey Jan. 10, 2010)

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diocese of Lichfield, Parish of Selattyn, 2009

Image Source: photograph in http://www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/oswestry/selattyn/newpics/font.jpg [accessed 7 January 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail from Revd. Adrian Bailey Jan. 10, 2010)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diocese of Lichfield, Parish of Selattyn, 2009

Image Source: photograph in http://www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/oswestry/selattyn/newpics/font.jpg [accessed 7 January 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail from Revd. Adrian Bailey Jan. 10, 2010)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07058SEL
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 5-6 km N of Oswestry
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Revd. Adrian Bailey, of Selattyn Parish, for the photograph of this font
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "C13 circular bowl. Incised stiff-leaf on the rim." The Diocese of Lichfield website entry for Selattyn St. Mary's [http://www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/oswestry/selattyn/] [accessed 7 January 2010] notes and illustrates this font: a round basin decorated with a vine around the upper basin side, a moulding at the lower end; raised on a modern (?) pedestal base, round and moulded, and a modern circular plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat and appears modern as well.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006