Forton
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/staffs/html/forton.html] [standing permission]
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view of font
Scene Description: the 18th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/staffs/html/forton.html] [standing permission]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17205FOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Forton, Newport TF10 8BY, UK -- Tel.: +44 1952 820080
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A519, 2-3 km NNE of Newport and the Shropshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Font Notes:
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No entry for this Forton found in the Domesday survey. The SNAP Newport History Society entry for Forton Hall and All Saints Church reports "remains of a Saxon font" in the church [http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/resource:20081127081008]. The Staffordshire Past-Track site [http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=3711], however, mentions only "a white marble font, dated 1723" in this church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.78768, -2.3648
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 15.65″ N, 2° 21′ 53.28″ W
UTM: 30U 542837 5848841
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment?