Ratlinghope / Rotelingehope / Rotlynghope

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16327RAT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 8 km WNW of Church Stretton

Additional Comments: moded font?

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) suggests this church may have founded "perhaps by Wigmore Abbey in connection with the priory. The Myndtown Combined Parish website [http://www.2shrop.net/live/welcome.asp?id=985] [accessed 8 April 2010] notes: "The plain octagonal font came from Hanwood church." [cf. Index entry for Hanwood church for the font in that church].

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 210