Upton Magna / Uptona / Uptone
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16475UPT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1628
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lucia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lucy [aka Lucia?
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km E of Shrewsbury
Font Notes:
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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 Text: [1628]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 128
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 670