Petton / Pectone
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16409PEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Raphael and St. Isidore
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Raphael & St. Isidore
Church Address: Petton, Shropshire, SY12 0JQ
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Wem
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Additional Comments: altered re-cycled font: originally a sundial?
Font Notes:
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Anderson (1864) reports a chapel here "founded before 1159". Newman & Pevsner (12006) describe the present church as built in 1727; the font itself: "Probably converted from the stem of an C18 sundial. The cover is a cut-down C17 Dutch panel carved with the Baptism of Christ."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 511183 5853929
LID INFORMATION
Date: altered 17th-century panel
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 424-425
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 467