Astley / Hesleie / Heslere

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view of church exterior - south portal

now blocked; entrance is via the west portal
Scene Description: now blocked; entrance is via the west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/590684] [accessed 17 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/590692] [accessed 17 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

the church prior to the Victorian renovation: the south portal is hidden inside the porch (the artist has reproduced the arch-head on the top left corner of the painting); the wooden bell-cote housed the 13thC bells (they were restored and re-hung recently)
Scene Description: the church prior to the Victorian renovation: the south portal is hidden inside the porch (the artist has reproduced the arch-head on the top left corner of the painting); the wooden bell-cote housed the 13thC bells (they were restored and re-hung recently)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1786 watercolur reproduced in [www.achurchnearyou.com/album/4293/] [accessed 17 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - west portal

now the main entrance to the interior, but the tower is a Victorian addition
Scene Description: now the main entrance to the interior, but the tower is a Victorian addition
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/590677] [accessed 17 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Church of England, Archbishops' Council, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in The Church of England [www.achurchnearyou.com/album/4293/] [accessed 17 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyrights restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 16230HES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [former Chapel of St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Astley Lane, Astley, Shropshire SY4 4BP
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located between the A53 and A49,11 km NE of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Baschurch
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: St. Mary's was originally a chapel-of-ease of St. Mary's in Shrewsbury according to the Domesday Book [in Anderson (1864: 435)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Astley [variant spelling] in Folio: 252v Great Domesday Book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ5218/astley/] [accessed 17 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor priest in it, although the holdings of Shrewsbury St. Mary's may include a cleric here. The present font in this church consists of an octagonal basin, the sides decorated with floral motifs inscribed in the quatrefoil-in-a-circle-in-a-square arrangement of fonts of the Perpendicular period; on a moulded pedestal base, also octagonal; the design is Perpendicular but the font is probably Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the Norman church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.764562, -2.698276
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 52.42″ N, 2° 41′ 53.8″ W
UTM: 30U 520359 5846123