Ditton Priors / Dodintone [Domesday] / Dudinton
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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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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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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INFORMATION
FontID: 16305DIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [earlier dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin]
Church Location: 6 St John's Court, Ditton Priors, Shropshire WV16 6SQ
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, towards the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.50196,
-2.583324
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 30′ 7.06″ N,
2° 34′ 59.96″ W
UTM: 30U 528284 5816952
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-. Accessed: 2010-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006