Kemberton No. 2 / Chenbritone / Kenberton

INFORMATION

FontID: 16353KEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist & St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes a church in Kemberton by 1291, and names an early incumbent of 1230. The Antiquary (issue No. 36, vol. 6, December 1882) informs: "Kemberton Church has been pulled down and rebuilt. The old church […] took the place of a still older church which probably was erected in the fourteenth century […] One of the most interesting was probably the font, Early English, probably of the beginning of the thirteenth century." [NB: this font appears to match the medieval church dates in Anderson, but we have no information on its whereabouts; it may have been replaced in either of the re-buildings in the 18th or 19th century].

REFERENCES

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