Broseley / Bosle / Burewardesleg / Burewardsleye

The entry for 'Bosle' found in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/bosle/] [accessed 7 July 2015] appears to be identified with Broseley; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Anderson (1864) notes the valuation of: "In 1291, the church of Burewardsleye", in the deanery of Wenlock. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "A parson was serving Broseley chapel c. 1230, and there had probably been a chapel there since the 12th century or earlier […] The church of St. Leonard, so known by c. 1740, […] comprised a west tower, nave with south porch, and chancel […] In 1701 the font stood in the centre of the west end of the nave" [NB: we do not know whether the font reported in 1701 was the one from the medieval church]. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note only All Saints', the 19th-century building and do not mention a font in it. The August 2003 issue of the Newsletter of the Broseley Historical Society [www.broseley.org.uk/Newsletters/nl0803final2.pdf] [accessed 31 March 2010] notes "a font which came from the old Red Church in Broseley. For some reason not too clear the font is now buried outside the church" [i.e., the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, built in 1863] [NB: this must be a modern font -- there is a local 'ghost story' about a font buried in the the Birch Meadow Centre, but we have no information on whether or not this is the same font referred to in the Newsletter above].