Weston-under-Redcastle / Weston under Redcastle / Weston-under-Red Castle / Westune

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Luke’s Parish Church, in Hodnet [...] The oldest part of the building (the south isle) dates from the 12th century. In the 14th century the church was remodelled, with the south isle chapel, nave, chancel and rare three-stage octagonal tower added. The church was restored in the latter half of the nineteenth century."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by David Nixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2552173] [accessed 11 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike White, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Mike White [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1323622] [accessed 11 February 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16481WES
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke
Church Patron Saints: St. Luke
Church Location: Guinea Lane, Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire, SY4 5XG
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A49, SW of Market Drayton, NNE of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Hodnet [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Church Notes: church originally 12thC
There is an entry for Weston[-under-Redcastle] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ5628/weston-under-redcastle/] [accessed 11 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Anderson (1864) notes an ancient chapel here. Newman & Pevsner (2006) reports a Georgian church modified in 1879. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SJ5650228801] (1987) reports an "octagonal late Perpendicular-style font [...] late C19" in this church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8535, 2.5770
UTM: 30U 523769 5856199

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006