Minsterley / Menistrelie

INFORMATION

FontID: 16380MIN
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 off the A488, W of Pontesbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1690?
Century and Period: 17th century(late?)
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) states the name of the village seems to indicate that this had a collegiate church, perhaps the mother church of Westbury in Saxon times, but later its dependant. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note the 1688-1699 church, and its font: "Boldly modelled octagonal bowl on a shortened baluster stem". [NB: we have no information on an earlier font of the original church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006