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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 14306CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew & St. Mary
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km S of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
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
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006