Myddle / M'dle / Meadley / Medle / Middle / Midle / Mulleht

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16401MYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Myddle, Shropshire, SY4 3RX
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km NNW of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
The Domesday survey of 1086 reports a priest in Mulleht [Myddle]. Anderson (1864) reports the "church of St. Peter, at Middle, originally a Saxon foundation", given to Shrewsbury Abbey. The church was re-built in the mid-18th century, and underwent a major renovation in the mid-19th century. The Parish website [http://www.myddle.net/history/myddlehistoryproject/church.pdf] [accessed 19 April 2010] informs that, during the 1857-1858 renovation, "the tower was opened to the nave, forming the present baptistry, and a new font placed in it […] the carved octagonal font is modern, and the font cover is made of olivewood from the Holy Land, said to be the work of the last Rector Egerton." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 514602 5851899

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, olivewood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 421