Diddlebury / Duddelebury / Dudelebury / Dudenebury
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: "St. Peter's Church (Font, Diddlebury)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fabian Musto, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2018 by Fabian Musto
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: "Church of St Peter, Diddlebury"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John H Darch, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 28 June 2020 by John H Darch
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16286DID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: The Sheela Na Gig project [http://www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/SheelaDiddlebury.htm] [accessed 1 April 2010] describes the claim that a sculpture in this church can be identified as a Sheela as "somewhat dubious […] However it is so damaged that it is hard to say what it originally was meant to represent. It appears to a torso with the remnants of two legs and what could be a jutting out neck. There is no evidence of any sexual organs carved between the legs."
Church Address: Diddlebury, Craven Arms SY7 9DH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1584 861238
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4368, 8 km NE of Craven Arms
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddlebury
Font Notes:
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Anderson (1864) notes that the church of St. Peter, mentioned by name in Domesday Book, had been granted to Shrewsbury Abbey by Roger de Mortimer [1st Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094)]. Newman & Pevsner (2006) date the nave "Late Saxon", but describe the baptismal font in it as octagonal, of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO5084385372] mentions a font in it but gives no details.
[NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
[NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 518343 5812793
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.465, -2.73
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 54″ N, 2° 43′ 48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 311-312
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 245