Upton Magna / Uptona / Uptone

INFORMATION

FontID: 16475UPT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lucia
Church Patron Saints: St. Lucy [aka Lucia?
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 13 km E of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1628
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Anderson (1864) refers to its church as "a very ancient foundation […] originally the mother church of a district", confirmed to Shrewsbury Abbey by 1148. A font of a later period is noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Plain octagon on a stem of clustered shafts, dated 1628".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [1628]

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