Welshampton / Hantone / Welch Hampton

INFORMATION

FontID: 16477WEL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Welshampton, Welshampton, Shropshire, SY12 0JQ

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the A495, E of Ellesmere

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

An early chapel affiliated to Ellesmere, and later a parochial church, is reported here in Andreson (1864). Newman & Pevsner (2006) described the font here: "Rich and complicated, carved much foliage and enlivened with pink marble shafting." Newman & Pevsner (ibid.) further note that the "medieval church had been replaced in 1788 by an elegant little Neoclassical church." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

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