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Scene Description: object in the churchyard
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16411PRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1762
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century, Georgian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cahd
Font Location in Church: Outside the porch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Wem, 24 km N of Shrewsbury,
sandwiched between the A41 and the A49
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Anderson (1864) states the church here was "originally a Saxon Collegiate foundation", with a priest noted in the Domesday Book for the manor. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font (outside the porch). Dated 1762. Scalloped bowl." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here]. [NB: there is an object in the churchyard that appears to be of a composite nature, perhaps used as holy-water stoup, though not originally intended as such, most likely; it has a basin with a large flat moulding, and a narrow underbowl decorated with concave ribbed patterns; narrow round stem with wider moulded lower base; on a narrow polygonal plinth].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 399-400
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 476