Stafford No. 3 / Stadford / Statford

INFORMATION

FontID: 12771STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)?
Church/Chapel: [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 25 km N of Wolverhampton up the M6
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lichfield]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
There are four entries for this Stafford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ9223/stafford/] [accessed 16 July 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the lower portion of an ancient font or piscina [...] found on repairing the walls of the castle, some years since."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831