Donington nr. Wolverhampton/ Doniton / Donitone / Donyngton / Dunynton / Dunyton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16306DON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km W of Wolverhampton, near Albright, of which it is now a suburb
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes a church here by 1127. Vaughan (1883) notes a modern font: "the Honble. Mrs. Henry Howard, wife of the late Dean of Lichfield, and Rector of Donington, […] presented a new font to the church, adorned on its several sides with the arms of her husband and her friends, for which one of her daughters carved a cover of wood." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 548378 5832798

REFERENCES

  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 36-38
  • Vaughan, H.F.J., Shrewsbury: [The Society], 1883, p. 2, 33