Chelmarsh / Celmeres
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter, Chelmarsh. Dating from after 1375, when it became part of the Wigmore Abbey estate."
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 April 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4952839] [accessed 22 April 2024]
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view of church interior - looking northeast
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter, Chelmarsh. The interior, looking East"
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4952951] [accessed 22 April 2024]
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view of church interior - looking northwest
![Source caption: "St Peter, Chelmarsh. The restored rood screen." -- showing the [modern] baptismal font by the west doorway](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240422001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter, Chelmarsh. The restored rood screen." -- showing the [modern] baptismal font by the west doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4952895] [accessed 22 April 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font by the west doorway -- one source claims the basin is Norman [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 April 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4952895] [accessed 22 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16275CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Chelmarsh, Bridgnorth WV16 6AZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1746 862837
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4555, 6-7 km S of Bridgnorth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Alnodestreu [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: 14thC church replaced an earlier one on the same site; modified 1720 and 1887;
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Chelmarsh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO7287/chelmarsh/] [accessed 22 April 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note the re-set north doorway as being from the original Norman church here. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7205887847] mentions the 12th-century north doorway but no font in it. The entry for this church in Shropshire and Beyond [https://www.shropshireandbeyond.com/blog/blossom-and-blue-sky-in-an-English-heaven] [accessed 22 April 2024] notes: "The north aisle has a blocked Norman doorway, and the bowl of the font is from the same period." [NB: is the basin of the present font Norman, as claimed in the one source?]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4878, -2.413
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 16.08″ N, 2° 24′ 46.8″ W
UTM: 30U 539858 5815457
REFERENCES
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006