Haughmond Abbey

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Scene Description: the font seen inside the chapter house

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Scene Description: the interior of the chapter house at Haughmond Abbey

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16326HAU
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist?
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B5092
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Octagonal baptismal font, plain and badly damaged, housed now [May 2009] in the chapter house of the Abbey. It may have originated in the abbey church. It is now raised on three stone blocks, not its original base. [NB: there may have been an earlier font, as Newman & Pevsner (2006) note there may have been a Late Saxon church here before the foundation of the Abbey ca. 1135 -- the plain font now in the chapter house may date from one of the medieval or late-medieval renovations of the Abbey, or from a nearby church].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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