Chetton / Catinton / Chetynton
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Scene Description: the modern font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14486CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Bridgnorth, 32 km from Wolverhampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
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Baptismal font consisting on an octagonal basin with tapering sides rounded on the underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal stem and lower base; appears modern, perhaps from the 18th or 19th renovation. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat with carved top; modern. [NB: Anderson (1864) notes: "The mention of a priest in the Domesday survey of Chetton, implies the existence of a church here in 1086", and the fabric of the present church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]. No font mentioned here in Newman & Pevsner (2006), but they note a font that may have been "On a thick baluster stem. Adapted from a sundial?" in the church at Loughton, "Erected in 1622, in place of a medieval chapel of Chetton".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 534002 5817882
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864