Croft nr. Warrington

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mary Harris in September 2003

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Mary Harris in September 2003

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mary Harris in September 2003

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12495CRO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: Modern

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Croft

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels

Church Notes: NB: we have located only two churches in Croft, Cheshire, both modern, without earlier ones here

Church Address: Round Thorn, Croft, Watrrington WA2,, UK

Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located N of the interchange of the M6 and M62 motorways, 6-7 km NE of Warrington, 25-30 km W of Manchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin raised on and octagonal stem and lower base, all decorated with a few mouldings but otherwise plain; the surface of the stone(?) has been painted to imitate (poorly) marble. The wooden font cover is said [locally] to have been made by soldiers of one of the World Wars [NB: there was an RAF base at Croft and a camp in Burtonwood in the 1950s].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mary Harris for the photograph of this font and cover.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone [cf. FontNotes]

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th-century

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FpntNotes]