Cressage / Christsache / Christshethe

INFORMATION

FontID: 16284CRE
Church/Chapel: Christ Church [medieval St. Sampson's?]
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ [medieval dedication to St. Sampson?
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A458, NW of Much Wenlock, SE of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century / 19th-century (?), Norman / Modern?
Cognate Fonts: copy
Anderson (1864) notes an early incumbent in this church in 1232. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Said to be a copy of the Norman font which was in the demolished medieval church" [NB: N&P date of the building of the new church to 1841]. The Secret Shropshire website http://www.search.secretshropshire.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?theme=&originator=%2Fengine%2Ftheme%2Fdefault.asp&page=9&records=9610&direction=1&pointer=11319&text=1&resource=12840] [accessed 1 April 2010] notes: "The old church in Cressage was dedicated to St Sampson. However, it was situated too close to the river and was constantly being flooded. St Sampson's was replaced by the current Christ Church, as seen here, in 1841. The earliest part of the modern church is its Norman (1066-1154) font."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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