Wrenbury

INFORMATION

FontID: 10773WRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A530, about halfway between Nantwich to the NE and Whitchurch to the SW
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Post-Reformation
Font Notes:
Noted in Richards (1973): "The font is of sandstone, and is post-Reformation; it consists of a small bowl on a pedestal, covered by a lid shaped in the form of a pyramid with a small lifting knob."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? / post-Reformation?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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