Wrenbury
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10773WRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late?), Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A530, about halfway between Nantwich to the NE and Whitchurch to the SW
Font Notes:
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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, p. 370