Sheinton / Scentune / Shaynton / Sheynton

INFORMATION

FontID: 10159SHE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A458, 12 km SE of Shrewsbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) reports a church here before 1272. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note a 17th-century re-building of an earlier church; they do not mention a font in it. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions that "the font is Norman" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006