Habberley / Heberleye / Haburley

INFORMATION

FontID: 16322HAB

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located near Minsterley and Pontesbury, 13 km SW of Shrewsbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut in 1766], Norman [altered?]

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) notes: "Habberley Chapel was anciently subject to the church of Westbury", but by Henry VIII's time [1509+], had become independent. Newman & Pevsner (2006) report a font here: "Small, cylindrical. C12, recut in 1766."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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