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

INFORMATION

FontID: 16306DON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert

Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 13 km W of Wolverhampton, near Albright, of which it is now a suburb

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Vaughan, H.F.J., Shrewsbury: [The Society], 1883