Ditton Priors / Dodintone [Domesday] / Dudinton
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1447184] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Picks, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2004 by Geoff Picks [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/120656] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trevor Rickard, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2010 by Trevor Rickard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2212348] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16305DIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, towards the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist [earlier dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin]
Church Address: 6 St John's Court, Ditton Priors, Shropshire WV16 6SQ
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km E of Bridgnorth, S of Much Wenlock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ditton [Priors] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6089/ditton-priors/] [accessed 7 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Anderson (1864) reports that the church existed already in 1196 and was the subject of the Pope's arbitrators. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes that the church was dedicated to the Virgin by the 15th century, and to St. John the Baptist by 1831, but does not mention any font. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Perp[endicular]. Plain, octagonal." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s)]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 528284 5816952
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.50196, -2.583324
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 7.06″ N, 2° 34′ 59.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal base and octagonal tower on it, resembling a chapel of sorts; Christ-on-the-Cross finial
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. 254
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 248