Church Pulverbatch / Polrebec / Pulverbache / Purbech

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16278PUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edith
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edith
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km SW of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)?
Font Notes:
Two fonts are noted in the VCH (Shropshire, vol. 8, 1968): an octagonal font in the Perpendicular style "unlikely to be older than 1854", and an earlier "small round font with a slender stem" that was in the church in 1823. Anderson (1864) notes this church was "dedicated to St. Edith the Virgin in 1291". [NB: we have no information on the medieval font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 510493 5830011

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 229