Hopesay / Hope / Hope-Say

INFORMATION

FontID: 16345HOP

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 6 km E of Craven Arms

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) notes a parson in Hopesay by 1278. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note two fonts in theis church: "Plain Norman and lush Victorian". The Hopesay Parish website [http://www.hopesayparish.org.uk/history.html] [accessed 12 April 2010] notes: "The font dates from 1856; Glynne states that the original Norman font was circular and barrel-shaped and was now (1871) in a farmyard. Another tradition states that this font is now in a church at Bryn, five miles north of Clun."

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