Ryton nr. Beckbury / Ruitone

INFORMATION

FontID: 16419RYT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just NNW of Beckbury, 5-4 km SE of Shiffnal
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower arch
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
Anderson (1864) notes: "Ryton Church is inferred to have existed in 1186, from the circumstance that the priest of Ryton attested a charter of that date." Newman & Pevsner (2006) date the present church to "an early C18 reconstruction of a medieval church", and do not mention a font in it. The Parish Guide to this church [www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/shifnal/beckbury/ryton.htm] [accessed 21 April 2010] notes: "The font is unusually recessed into the tower arch and the style of its carved decorations indicates it is 14th century" [NB: we have no information on the earlier font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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