Macclesfield
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Scene Description: NB: this is the Georgian font from Chirst Church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10742MAC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [formerly All Hallows]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [former dedication: All Hallows]
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of the font at Christ Church.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Finney (1871) writes: "It would be interesting to know where the ancient font was removed to which formerly belonged to this church, prior to the one givwn by Mr. Hooley in 1740". It does not seem that Finney's exhoration had much effect, since no news of that font appear to have turned up since. Pevsner (1971) notes: "Font. (Nave E), a robust baluster and a fluted bowl; 1744." Craig Thornber [www.thornber.org] mentions that the font is "of marble obtained from Castleton in Derbyshire". [NB: the Georgian Christ Church, in the same town, has a font of the late 18th century, not listed in this Index on account of its late date]. [NB: the church of St. Michael goes back to the early 13th century, but we have no information on its original font].
REFERENCES
Finney, Isaac, Notes on the antiquities of Macclesfield, Macclesfield: I. Finney, bookseller, Chestergate; J. Daniel, printer, 50 Mill Street, 1871
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971
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