Petton / Pectone

INFORMATION

FontID: 16409PEC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Raphael and St. Isidore
Church Patron Saints: St. Raphael & St. Isidore
Church Location: Petton, Shropshire, SY12 0JQ
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Wem
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
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
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006