Much Wenlock No. 2 / Wenloch
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2006)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Taylor, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in February 2006 by David Taylor
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 March 2006)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Taylor, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in February 2006 by David Taylor
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2006)
view of font in context
Scene Description: in the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carol Walker, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2007 by Carol Walker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/417922] [accessed 9 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 11579MUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [formerly St. Milburga]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [formerly dedicated to St. Milburga [aka Milburh, Milburgha]]
Church Location: Wilmore Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6HR
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located at the A458-A4169 crossroads, 11 km NW of Bridgnorth, 18-20 km SE of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Date: 1875
Century and Period: 19th century (late), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Taylor for the recent [2006] photographs of this font.
A second font in this church, in the nave, is the one noted in the Victoria County History entry (Shropshire. vol. 10, 1998): "A gothic font in Caen stone, inlaid with ceramic plaques, had been given in 1875; [...] it remained in the church after its plain Norman predecessor was brought inside c. 1920". Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "1875 […] octagonal, of stone with tile panels."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.596304,
-2.556526
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 35′ 46.69″ N,
2° 33′ 23.5″ W
UTM: 30U 530038 5827457
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
