Leighton / Lahtune / Lehton / Lestone
INFORMATION
FontID: 13616LEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [formerly a chapel]
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4380, WSW of Telford
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Eyton (1859): ''the Norman font, which is still preserved''. Anderson (1864) infers a church at Leighton existed by 1086 from the mention of a priest in the Domesday Book entry for this place; the church was later valued in the 1291 and 1321 taxations, and Anderson names an early incumbent in it the early-13th century.
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-