Waverton / Wavretone

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church, Waverton. The earliest documentary evidence of a place of worship on the site is in a charter of confirmation dated 1093. Later references are in a will dated 1599 and in documents relating to the building of a north chapel in 1640 by John Tilston of Lower Huxley Hall."

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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 July 2012 by Jeff Buck [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3049734] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10771WAV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Village Rd, Waverton CH3 7QN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1244 336668
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A41 [aka Whitchurch Rd], 4-5 km SE of Chester town centre
Historical Region: Hundred of Duddeston [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Stuart
Church Notes: earliest documentary evidence of a place of worship on the site is in a charter of confirmation dated 1093;
There is an entry for Wavertone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ4663/waverton/] [accessed 20 August 2022]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Richards (1973) writes: "There is a seventeenth century font, plainly fashioned and octagonal in shape." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ4618063355] notes: "Church: tower C16, aisles and nave roof early-mid C17, restoration and additions dated 1845, and 1888", but mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.16453, -2.80661
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 52.31″ N, 2° 48′ 23.8″ W
UTM: 30U 512929 5890591

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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