LeeBotwood / Botewde [Domesday] / Bottewede / Bottewode / Lee Botwood

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The tower was added in 1829, and is rectangular in plan rather than square."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2016 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927159] [accessed 21 November 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2016 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927149] [accessed 21 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Leebotwood. Interior looking east. Medieval wall painting on the left, box pews of 1778 and monuments visible in the chancel. 18th century chancel screen."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2016 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927174] [accessed 21 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the modern font partially visible beneath the west gallery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Law, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2014 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3967170] [accessed 21 November 2017]

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view of church interior - north wall - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Leebotwood. The 13th century wall painting. Although damaged (understandably), the robes of the seated Virgin Mary are very clear in the centre of the image."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2016 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927181] [accessed 21 November 2017]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2016 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927182] [accessed 21 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16358LEE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Station Road, Leebotwood, Shropshire, SY6 6NE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A49, 6 km N of Church Stretton, 15 km SSW of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford [earlier in the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry]
Historical Region: Hundred of Condover
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; present church 13thC with 19thC re-building which included the tower
There is an entry for Leebotwood [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO4798/leebotwood/] [accessed 21 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The present font is modern, 19th-century. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.582707, -2.782901
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 57.74″ N, 2° 46′ 58.45″ W
UTM: 30U 514710 5825874