The King's font

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A 12th Century Norman font was moved from a Shropshire church to Scotland for King Charles III, so he could be "surrounded by ancient objects of English beauty" while he was at school. The font was taken from St Michael's Church at Upton Cressett to Gordonstoun School in Moray in the 1960s after Prince Philip arranged for it to be transported north. It remained in the school's chapel during Charles's time there before being returned to its home in the 1970s. William Cash, whose family has cared for the church for 50 years, told BBC Radio Shropshire's Clare Ashford that the font's journey was "like something out of an Arthurian legend".