Leighton / Lahtune / Lehton / Lestone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13616LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [formerly a chapel]
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4380, WSW of Telford
Additional Comments: disappeared?
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, p. 130
  • Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-, vol. VIII: 5 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=gfIGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=shawbury+church+font&source=web&ots=4IkbWSFmBc&sig=j7RT2cILQdjUyWBXqHGst_lrAAI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP9,M1] [accessed 15 July 2008]