Hughley / Hughlye / Huley / Lega / Lee
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Hughley. The interior, showing the very fine screen - the best in Shropshire. It dates from around 1500 and is from the same workshop as that at Aymestrey in North Herefordshire."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4449845] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16349HUG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Hughley, Shropshire SY5 6NT
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km WSW of Much Wenlock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry for Hughley found in the Domesday survey, but Thomas (2003) notes: "Two holdings, Bourton, and possibly Hughley, were held of Much Wenlock Priory by Edric son of Aliuric in 1086". Anderson (1864) reports a chapel with a chaplain here ca. 1170, "an affiliation of the church of Wenlock". The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "The octagonal font looks 18th-century but apparently replaced an 'ancient circular' one, the 'clumsy workmanship of the village artist', that was in the church c. 1830". The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO5648497932] (1958) reports a " late C19 octagonal stone font" in it. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 12th-century chapel].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.577792,
-2.643801
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 34′ 40.05″ N,
2° 38′ 37.69″ W
UTM: 30U 524137 5825365
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Thomas, Hugh M., The English and the Normans: ethnic hostility, assimilation, and identity 1066-c.1220, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003