Worthen / Worthin / Wrdine

INFORMATION

FontID: 16488WOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the B4386, 21 km SSW of Shrewsbury, near the border with Powys, Wales [Coordinates: 52°38′N 3°00′W]

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Anderson (1864) notes: "Although not indicated in Domesday, yet this undoubtedly was a very ancient Saxon foundation; the centre of a vast parish", and reports an incumbent there by 1245. [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