Bridgnorth / Bridgenorth
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Scene Description: the 1894 font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig A. Shelley, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig A. Shelley in http://myancestry.org/index.htm [accessed 19 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 07060BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 25 km W of Wolverhampton
Font Location in Church: [unknown]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note a font of 1894 by Thomas Earp: "Octagonal, with standing figures under shafted canpies, on a shafted base. Tall timber pinnacled cover, 1911, by J. Phillips." The MyAncestry web site [http://myancestry.org] [accessed 19 April 2009] notes that the church was remodeled in 1835 and that the present font was made in 1894 [NB: we have no information on the font listed in Cox & Harvey]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006