Shrawardine / Saleurdine / Salevrdine / Scrawardyn / Shrawarthin / Shrawurdi / Shrewardyn / Srwardin

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There is an entry for Shrawardine [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ3915/shrawardine/] [accessed 11 January 2023]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The 'List of illustrations' for R.W. Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. 10, (London: John Russell Smith, [1860]) [https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Eyton_Vol10.pdf] [accessed 11 January 2022] lists "4. To face page 98. Font. Shrawardine. Rev. J. Brooks, del." but the page facing p. 98 is actually blank. Noted simply as "a curious old font" in this church in Randall (1861). Baptismal font illustrated in Anderson (1864). Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Norman. Circular with scalloped underside." The round slightly tapering basin has parallel mouldings at the upper rim side, with trumpet scallops on the underbowl; raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a moulded lower base; on a narrow octagonal plinth. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ3994815278] notes: "Parish church. Nave of 1649 and chancel dated 1722, both incorporating some C12 fabric, Restored and vestry added in 1892-3 […] C12 circular stone font with scalloped bowl, moulded lower part, octagonal base and C19 iron- bound wooden cover."