Chester No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 07452CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
One of "two fonts of note" recorded by Richards (1973) in this church, this one, "belonging to the fifteenth century, brought back to the church in 1662, when it was recovered from 'Mr. Bickerton's garden'". [cf. Index entry for Chester No. 5 for the 17th-century font also in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973