Ightfield / Ightfelde / Istefelt Ythefeld

INFORMATION

FontID: 16350IGH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Street, Ightfield, Ightfield, Shropshire, TF9 3RS
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Whitchurch, 11 km from Market Drayton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Century and Period: 11th century / 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes that Domesday Book reports a priest in "Istefelt", which "may be inferred that there was a church at Ightfield in 1086, which probably was the mother church of the district. Anderson (ibid.) notes also that the church here had an incumbent in 1272, and was assessed in 1291. Newman & Pevsner (2006) describe the church as Perpendicular and handsome, but the stone font, though Perpendicular in style, is from the 1867 renovation by G. E. Street. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font(s). Lee's A History of Market Drayton published in 1861, therefore prior to the 1867 renovation, notes a holy-water stoup in the porch of Ightfield church, but no font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 526603 5865931

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Lee, J. R. [Revd.], A History of Market Drayton, with some account of Ashley, Betton, Norton, Cheswardine, and other villages, London; Market Drayton: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; John Lockett, 1861
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006