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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14306CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew & St. Mary
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km S of Shrewsbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? at least two: the medieval font(s) and a marble basin used until 1878 [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes that a priest is mentioned in Domesday's entry for this location, and mentions a "collegiate Saxon church of St. Andrew" there. The 'Salopian shreds and patches' (issue of 11 September 1878: 92, 93, 94) reports on the recent re-opening of St. Andrew's and complains about the location of "a font of red stone [...] under the tower"; in the same report it notes that "previously there was only a marble bason", surely post-Reformation and most likely Georgian; no mention is made of the medieval font. This "red stone" font must be the same one noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. With figures representing the Baptism of Christ, 1878 by Landucci of Shrewsbury". [NB: we have no information on a medieval font in this church]

REFERENCES

  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 200-203
  • Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 230