Farlow / Ferlau / Fernelau / Fernlawe / Pharlawe / Vuerlawe

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Farlow church is dedicated to St Giles and is Grade II listed. see: LinkExternal link. The church was rebuilt in 1857-1858 by Robert Griffiths and includes a font and a 12th century doorway from the earlier church."

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Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2017 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5447311] [accessed 16 June 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16313FAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Farlow, Kidderminster DY14 0RQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1746 718127
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A4117, 13 km ENE of Ludlow, about 22 km WNW of Kidderminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wolphy / Hundred of Conditre (Domesday)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: 12thC church; demolished; re-built mid-19thC on new site retaining part of the Norman doorway and font from the old church
The entry for Farlow in the Domesday Book [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO6480/farlow/] [accessed 16 June 2021] is included together with another sixteen places, with a reportad total of six priests in it. R.W. Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire (1857, vol. 4: 191-192), questions the Domesday accuracy in putting Farlow in a Shropshire hundred, "connected with, but not contained in, Shropshire"; he further writes of a "Farlow Chapel" which is "mentioned by Bishop Vere, about 1188" as a dependency of Stottesden Church. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. C12. Plain." The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101188651-church-of-st-giles-farlow] notes: "Parish church of 1857-1858 by Robert Griffiths, incorporating font and C12 doorway from a former church [...] The arch over a Norman doorway and the font were brought from the old church [...] The Norman tub font is plain." [NB: there is some confusion about Farlow belonging in Herefordshire because the chapelry was an exclave of this county, part of the Hundred of Wolphy, but was moved to Shropshire in 1844].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4224, -2.5317
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25' 20" N, 2° 31' 53" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006