Cheswardine / Chesewurthyn / Ciseworde

INFORMATION

FontID: 16276CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun
Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Location: High Street, Cheswardine, Cheswardine, Shropshire, TF9 2RS
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SE of Market Drayton, 13 km N of Newport, near the county border with Staffordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Date: ca. 1178?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes that this church "must have been founded before the year 1178". Newman & Pevsner (2006) notes that the present church was the work of J. L. Pearson [i.e., John Loughborough Pearson (1817-1897), Gothic Revival architect], responsible also for the 1889 font, "exotic in its red hot alabaster". [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font(s) of this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 539268 5857598

REFERENCES

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006