Hopton Wafers / Hopton Wafre / Hoptone

INFORMATION

FontID: 16347HOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and St. George [aka St. Michael and All Angels]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A4117, 3 km W of Cleobury, 8 NE of Tenbury, 15 E of Ludlow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes that the tithes of this church in 1236 "belonged to Brecknock Priory". Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Plain. C12?" The website of the Cleobury Benefice [http://cleoburybenefice.org/hopton_wafers_church.shtml] [accessed 12 April 2010] informs: "The original Norman church was in a very dilapidated condition and was pulled down and rebult in 1825 by Thomas Botfield. The church was restored in 1892. All that remains of the original church is the Norman font, which is just in front of the pulpit, and a fragment of 14th Century glass depicting the head of St. Michael. The Early English font is of very crude design. The present font, of perpendicular design, is modern. It was made of local marble." [NB: are there then three fonts in this church? To be completed]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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