The Font, St Peter-ad-Vincula - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 53° 00.248 W 002° 10.897
30U E 554916 N 5873043
An Anglo-Saxon font in the Minster Church of St Peter-ad-Vincula in Stoke.
Waymark Code: WMV5BW
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/26/2017
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The City of Stoke-on-Trent has no Cathedral. However, St Peter ad Vincula is its historic and civic church. It was granted the status of a Minster in 2005 by the Bishop of Lichfield in recognition that Stoke Minster fulfills the ‘cathedral’ role in this city.
The first baptisms at Stoke almost certainly took place in the river Trent which is just a few hundred metres behind Stoke Minster (although it is now hidden in a culvert).
However, for the last thousand years the Anglo-Saxon font in Stoke Minster has been used.
The Anglo-Saxon font comes from the first stone church that was built in the 9th century. When the church was demolished, the font was sold. It was rescued from use as a garden ornament and restored to the present church in 1932 for baptismal use in the church. It was relined with lead and a new wooden cover was made from 15th century beams.
Indent marks on the rim show where the hinges and hasp for the lid used to be. They supported a wooden lid in accordance with the Church ruling of around 1236 when Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury gave instructions that all covers to fonts should be securely locked.
Approximate Age of Artefact: C9th
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