Much Wenlock No. 1 / Wenloch

There are two entries for [Much] Wenlock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6299/much-wenlock/] [accessed 9 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "Holy Trinity may have been the survivor of a pair of churches and was presumably the minster that existed in 901 [...] and probably came to be served by secular priests; [...] Holy Trinity was called a minster c. 1101. [...] It may have become redundant in the 11th century [...] and in 1101 Holy Trinity was dilapidated and under repair. [...] The reconstitution of the new minster as a Cluniac priory probably led in the early 12th century to the reinstatement of Holy Trinity as a parish church [...] and to its complete rebuilding. [...] The spacious parish church of the HOLY TRINITY replaced a church so dedicated by 1101. [...] A gothic font in Caen stone, inlaid with ceramic plaques, had been given in 1875; [...] it remained in the church after its plain Norman predecessor was brought inside c. 1920. [...] The nave seems from its south doorway (integral with the nave plinth) to have been built in the 12th century. The plain cylindrical font seems contemporary with it." The older of two fonts found in this church consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a modern concrete pedestal; the basin is so crude, irregular and ill-shaped that it is difficult to guess a date for it; it has a protruding upper rim. Newman & Pevsner (2006) date it C12.