Mucklestone / Moclestone / Mokleston / Muccleston / Mucclestone / Mukleton / Muxton

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B01: design element - motifs - panel - 8

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Image Source: digital scan of a sepia wash drawing made in June 1843 by John Buckler in the William Salt Library [http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?txtKeywords=&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&rbAlphabeticalRecent=1&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=3&records=51&direction=2&pointer=14496&text=1&resource=9380] [accessed 12 April 2010]

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Image Source: digital scan of a sepia wash drawing made in June 1843 by John Buckler in the William Salt Library [http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?txtKeywords=&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&rbAlphabeticalRecent=1&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=3&records=51&direction=2&pointer=14496&text=1&resource=9380] [accessed 12 April 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16351MUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NE of Market Drayton, right at the county border with Staffordshire, 14 km NW of Eccleshall
Historical Region: formerly part in Shropshire?
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
The font was noted and illustrated in a June 1843 drawing by John Buckler, now held at the William Salt Library; the drawing bears the following text: "Remains of the Old Font, removed from Muckleston Church, Staffordshire: now in the garden of the Clerk of the Parish a Blacksmith; and used as a `Hog-Trough.'''J. B., June 1843." [source: sepia wash drawing in the William Salt Library [http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk] [accessed 12 April 2010]. Lee (1861) quotes Garner [?]: "Garner says, 'Of Mucclestone church, the tower is a fine specimen of the decorated Gothic -the body of the church is in the worst modern style- the ancient font converted into a pig-trough in the clerk's yard'".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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