Prince Philip moved ancient font to Charles in Scotland to surround him with ‘English beauty’
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Prince Philip once arranged for a magnificent 12th-century Norman font to be transported hundreds of miles from a crumbling Shropshire church to Gordonstoun School in Scotland, it has been revealed.The Duke of Edinburgh organised the remarkable relocation in 1962, the year his son, then Prince Charles, began attending the Moray boarding school.
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His wish was that the young prince would be "surrounded by ancient objects of English beauty."The ancient stone font had sat inside St Michael's Church in the tiny hamlet of Upton Cressett, which had ceased holding services in 1958 and fallen into serious disrepair.
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Rather than allow the ornate artefact to gather dust in a storage facility, Philip intervened to give it a new purpose.Philip had come across the font during a visit to St Michael's alongside Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, a former MP who was collaborating with him on efforts to safeguard disused historic churches across the country.
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