Wellington nr. Shrewsbury / Walitone / Welinton
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "West side of All Saints Church, Wellington. Viewed from the Church Street end. The Anglican church is in the diocese of Lichfield. The building was erected in 1789/1790 to replace the medieval church which had been damaged by both the Roundheads and Cavaliers in the Civil War, and had been in poor condition since at least 1747."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2013 by Jaggery [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3694859] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16465WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [the old church was demolished in 1787]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Street, Wellington, Shropshire, TF1 3DW
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A5223, 17 km E of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfiel
Historical Region: Hundred of Wrockwardine [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bradford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the likely Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Wellington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6511/wellington/] [accessed 9 July 2015]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Anderson (1864) writes: "As we glean from the Domesday report of the manor, this church was existent in 1086". The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 11, 1985) notes: "There was a priest at Wellington by 1086 [...] and Roger of Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094), gave the church there to Shrewsbury abbey [...] The ancient parish church of ALL SAINTS [...] was demolished in 1787 [...] At least one window dated from the 12th century." The major rebuilding of the late-18th century and "unfortunate alterations of 1898 by C.R. Dalgleish" are reported in Newman & Pevsner (2006), who note that the present immersion font dates actually from 1980. [NB: we have no information on the early font of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 532565 5839212
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.701839, -2.51806
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 42′ 6.62″ N, 2° 31′ 5.02″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 119
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 653