Highley / Hugelei / Hugefeld / Huggeley / Hugleye

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16343HIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4555
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Additional Comments: emailed the Rector Rev Clive Williams highleyrectory@aol.com asking for info 12 April 2010 - reply received 13 April 2010 from the Rectory, Mr. David Poyner]
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes the church at Highley existed by 1148. No font mentioned in Newman & Pevsner (2006). The Parish informs [e-mail communication from David Poyner and Clive Williams, rector, to BSI (13 and 18 April 2010)] that the present form is modern, probably Victorian, and that there is no knowledge of the medieval font locally] [NB: we have no information on the Norman font of this 12th-century church and suspect that it was replaced at the time of the 19th-century renovation of the church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 541987 5811128

REFERENCES

  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 286