Shrewsbury No. 4 / Pengwern

Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font (outside). Norman. Circular, with a diaper pattern." The round basin is almost cylindrical, with a slight taperin inwards; tall upper rim with a pattern of diamond/lozenge shapes with dots in them, the rest of the sides covered in a diaper pattern. [NB: the new church of St. Chad, located on St. Chad's Terrace, is a relatively modern grey marble fluted one that was brought from Malpas, Cheshire, in 1843. It may have had a silver font or basin at the time of Charles Darwin's baptism in November 1809. The new church dates from the early 1790s and was built to replace Old St. Chad's when the latter became dilapidated and actually collapsed in 1788]