Edgton / Egedune
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16308EDG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Craven Arms, 8 km SE of Bishop's Castle
Font Notes:
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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, [cited in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Edgton/Gaz1868.html] [accessed 7 April 2010]
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 470
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 260