Greete / Greet / Grete

INFORMATION

FontID: 16320GRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Tenbury, 8 SE of Ludlow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Anderson (1864) notes that the church in Geete, "in Burfod deanery, was valuated for taxes in 1291. Newman & Pevsner (2006) report a late-medieval octagonal font and a "flat C17 cover with acorn knop" in this church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006