Shipton nr. Much Wenlock / Scipetune
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the restored 12thC (?) basin on a 19thC pedestal base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1446489] [accessed 8 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3983514] [accessed 8 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St James at Shipton, Shropshire. The foundations of this beautiful small Parish Church date back to Saxon times with Norman additions. The chancel was "rebuilded from the grounde" in 1589 by John Lutwyche - son of Richard who built the nearby Shipton Hall. The churchyard is well maintained; snowdrops are at present adding a delicate touch to a very picturesque and "evocative" site."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Kidd, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 January 2008 by Roger Kidd [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/672971] [accessed 8 July 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James, Shipton. The interior, looking West from the altar steps."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3983364] [accessed 8 July 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel arch
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James, Shipton. The Norman chancel arch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3983507] [accessed 8 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3983205] [accessed 8 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16425SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?) [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Shipton, Shropshire TF13 6LA
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4378, 9 km SW of Much Wenlock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow, Libery and Borough of Munslow
Additional Comments: altered font? / restored font? (reported as an ancient font "abandoned outside" during the 18th or 19th century changes made to the olf church; restored: new base is 19thC)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Shipton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5691/shipton/] [accessed 8 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Anderson (1864) writes: "This church is first heard of about 1110. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "Parts of Shipton church are 12th-century. [...] A certain Grenta's claim that Shipton was a separate parish from Much Wenlock was dismissed c. 1110, [...] but Roger Owayn was called parson of Shipton in the mid 13th century. [...] The small church of ST. James, so dedicated by 1535 [...] The chancel arch dates from the 12th century [...] The tower was added c. 1200 or a little later", and reports "a small pedestal font, the ancient one having been abandoned outside." Newman & Pevsner (2006) note the Norman nave and chancel arch, but do not mention a font in this church. The entry for Shipton in English Heritage (1970) reports: "The plain tub font is lead-lined and C12, and stands on a C19 octagonal base and plinth."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 523912 5819231
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.522663, -2.647563
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 21.59″ N, 2° 38′ 51.23″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 250
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 508