Aston Eyre / Aston Aer / Aston Wheaten / Eston Eyre / Estone / Wheaten Aston

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: noted in Bond (1908: 165) late-12thC

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Shrewsbury Museums Service, 2010

Image Source: Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/0562). Image sy9405 [http://www.darwincountry.org/explore/019445.html] [accessed 24 March 2010]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RwthTomos1948, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2013 by RwthTomos1948 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Eyre_Church_2.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Capel Aston Eyre adeiladwyd 1132 Eglwys St. Gregory Morville oedd y fam eglwys."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RwthTomos1948, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2013 by RwthTomos1948 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Eyre_Church.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Kidd, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2007 by Roger Kidd [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/489595] [accessed 25 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken August 1997 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2246490] [accessed 25 September 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00134AST
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: 36 B4368, Aston Eyre, Bridgnorth WV16 6XB, UK -- Tel.: 01746 767174
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4368, W of the A458, 7 km W of Bridgnorth, 20 km. SE of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Alnodestreu
Date: ca. 1132?
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: church built ca. 1132; modified late-12thC with a medieval tympanum with the scene of the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem; re-built 19thC
There is an entry for Aston [Eyre] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6594/aston-eyre/] [accessed 25 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [List entry Number: 1053204] notes: "Aston Eyre church was founded in 1132 as a chapel of Morville, but the earliest surviving architectural details date from the late C12. The church was described in 1855 as recently rebuilt, work that included the addition of the bellcote and insertion of the neo-Norman east window. The C19 font has a round pedestal on square base, and shallow bowl." On-site notes: this Norman church was a chapel of ease of Morville; there is no Norman font here now [July 1998]; only a small modern work remains today, quite small, unadorned and carved from grey stone. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.54387, -2.5126
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 37.93″ N, 2° 30′ 45.36″ W
UTM: 30U 533053 5821643

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908