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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wrockwardine, Shropshire, view from by the Old School House (left) towards St Peter's Church."
INT E WITH MOD FONT digital photograph 31 May 2015 in the Shropshire Star [www.shropshirestar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/12439936.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2015] NO PERMIT -- Source caption: "The large font, which is the one used at the moment, was give to the church in memory of the Rev A P Salusbury, who was vicar from 1874 to 1896."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R J Higgindson, 2009
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R J Higgindson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2009 by R J Higgindson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wrockwardine_Church_01.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Shropshire Star, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2015 in the Shropshire Star [www.shropshirestar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/12439936.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16489WRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Wrockwardine, Shropshire, TF6 5DG
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A5, 3 km WSW of Wellington, 16 km E of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Wrockwardine [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bradford
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There is an entry for Wrockwardine [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6212/wrockwardine/] [accessed 10 July 2015]; it mentions a priest and a church in it [cf. infra]. Anderson (1864) notes: "Wrockwardine Church was a Saxon foundation", and is mentioned in Domesday. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 11, 1985) notes: "Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century [...] and there was a priest in 1086" [cf. supra]; it mentions a number of fonts in this church: "A font, perhaps contemporary with the oldest parts of the church, was turned out in 1808. A pillar font or piscina, also 12th-century, was perhaps removed then too. Another font, probably late 12th-century and previously in a Wellington garden, was given to the church in 1934. […] The church also has two 19th-century fonts, and a portable one (given c. 1931) formerly the property of Bishop King of Lincoln." The Church of England 'A Church Near You' website [www.achurchnearyou.com/wrockwardine/] [accessed 30 April 2010] notes: "There are three fonts in the church (and another said to be connected with the church but now in the ruined St. Chad’s church in Shrewsbury)." Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Medieval, but probably made as a stoup. Brought here in 1934."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.708857,
-2.556478
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 42′ 31.88″ N,
2° 33′ 23.32″ W
UTM: 30U 529965 5839976
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-04-30 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
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
