Lydham / Lude
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16372LYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Bishop's Castle
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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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, [cited in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MGY/Lydham/index.html [accessed 14 April 2010]]
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 473
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 391