Worfield / Worfeld

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07069WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [restored?] / 19th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular [restored?] / Victorian?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [or St. Matthew?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [or St. Matthew?]
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km NE of Bridgnorth, just N of the A454 to Wolverhampton
Additional Comments: altered font? / disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes: "From the mention of a priest, it is clear that a church existed here at Domesday" [1086]. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports a decorated octagonal font in this church [NB: the Nat. Gazt. Gives a doubtful dedication: St. Peter or St. Matthew]. The Church of England Magazine (issue of 6 July 1872: 1) gives the dedication as St. Matthew and the font as "a good Decorated octagon font". So does The Antiquary (issue of November 1889: 223): "the octagonal font is of the Decorated period." Font listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Newman & Pevsner (2006) write: "Font. Octagonal with quatrefoils and shields in alternate faces. Much restored or wholly C19?". [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [cited in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Worfield/Gaz1868.html [accessed 29 April 2010]]
  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 102
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
  • Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 712