Salt / Selte

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - west view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07188SAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Trentfield Lane, Salt, Staffordshire, ST18 0BW
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just off the A51, 2 km SE of Enson, 5-6 km NE of Stafford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Pirehill
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Church Notes: there appear to have been no earlier church here [cf. FontNotes]
Calvert (1886) reports visiting Salt and its "very pretty church in which is an ancient font curiously noted as having been utilised by the early Britons for the sharpening of their arrows". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The present font consists of a round basin raised on a quatrefoil pedestal base; is the basin the claimed Norman font? [NB: we have found no mention of an earlier church here -- the said Norman font was reported at one point in the churchyard -- where was it from? -- White's Directory of Satffordshire for the year 1834 (p. 142) lists Salt together with Enson].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.844986, -2.068255
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 41.95″ N, 2° 4′ 5.72″ W
UTM: 30U 562753 5855433

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Calvert, Charles, History of Stafford and guide to the neighbourhood, Stafford: Printed and published by J. Halden & Son, 1886
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907