Ingestre

INFORMATION

FontID: 09835ING
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Stafford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1676?
Century and Period: 17th century(late),
Described succintly in Pevsner (1975 c1974: 156): "Font. Of baluster type." The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a rounded baluster pedestal base with square lower base; the decoration is very stylised, chielfly mouldings and filiage motifs. Wooden cover with finial, probably of the same date as the font. A nineteenth-century illustration of this font is listed in an entry in the William Salt Library, Stafford [www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/pdf/archives/fis-lei.pdf] lists under reference SV V.21 a sepia drawing of 1841 by 'J.B.' [John Buckler]. The Ingestre church is usually attributed to Wren. The font does match the style of other fonts in Wren's churches. [Brief descriptive and historical notes, and photographs of church and font can be found at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/tixandrews/ingestre/Ingchrch.html]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1676? / 17th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Staffordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975 c1974