Lydham / Lude

INFORMATION

FontID: 16372LYD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Bishop's Castle

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) notes: "The Domesday mention of a priest in connection with Lydham, indicates that a church existed here in 1086". The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "an antique font" in this church. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Medieval. Octagonal but undecorated." [NB: there may probably have been an earlier font in the original church, but we have no information on it].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868

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

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006