Cold Weston / Calvestone?

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16282COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: [Former Church of St. Mary -- now a private house]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located , 13 km NNE of Ludlow, S of Morville
Additional Comments: disappeared?
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes an entry in Domesday Book under 'Calvestone', which some take as an error, but perhaps one of the eighteen 'berewicks' of Morville. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note this was "a tiny two-cell church" of Norman origin, which was "discreetely converted into a house in 1998-2000". [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original church]

REFERENCES

  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 6
  • Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 229