Edgton / Egedune

INFORMATION

FontID: 16308EDG

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Craven Arms, 8 km SE of Bishop's Castle

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) notes the former Chapel of St. Michael as "an appendage of Clun church". A font inside this church is noted in the National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868). Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Plain tub on a short round stem".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006