Longford nr. Newport

Anderson (1864) reports "The advowson of Longford was granted in 1155 to Shrewsbury Abbey, but surrendered back to the lady of the manor thirty years afterwards." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. No font mentioned in Newman & Pevsner (2006), who inform that the church "was converted c. 1991 into a house". The 'Talbot Chapel' is the remains of the medieval church and it is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust [http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/findachurch/talbot-chapel-longford/?region=Shropshire] [accessed 14 April 2010]: "This chapel is the surviving south aisle of the mediaeval parish church, demolished in 1803; a wide blocked arch in the north wall shows where it once connected with the chancel. The south windows were also blocked presumably to accommodate the handsome monument to Thomas Talbot (d.1686); the original railings remain and the inscription includes a moving tribute to Talbot’s widow." [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the medieval font] [NB: there are two Longfords in west Shropshire: one is just west of Market Drayton, this one is 2km SW of Newport].