Merevale
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/merevale---st-mary-the-virgin.html] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Merevale: Gate House and Church of Our Lady. [...] Be[h]ind the gate house on the left of the image can be seen the chancel of the Church of Our Lady (Grade I listed)"
EXT NW digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/merevale---st-mary-the-virgin.html] [accessed 9 December 2014]
INT E digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.therosewindow.com/pilot/Merevale/images/Merevale-view-90599.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2014]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2011 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2756861] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.therosewindow.com/pilot/Merevale/images/Merevale-view-90599.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19559MER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Our Lady [aka St. Mary's -- originally Chapel of St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 24 Merevale Lane, Merevale, West Midlands, CV9 2LA
Country Name: England
Location: West Midlands, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4116, off (SW) the A5, 2 km WSW of Atherstone, near Baddesley Ensor
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Sparkenhoe -- Hundred of Hemlingford -- the original parish was partly in Leicester and Warwickshire
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church
Church Notes: Cistercian Abbey founded here 1148; present church was originally the abbey's gateway chapel
We found no entry for Merevale in the Domesday survey. The entry for Merevale in Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer... of 1870-1872 reports: "The church was the chapel at the gate of the abbey [...] and was recently in a very dilapidated condition." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The present parish church was originally the chapel of St. Mary outside the gate of the Abbey of Merevale. It was mentioned by that name in 1345 [...] The nave with aisles dates from about 1240, and there is little doubt that the chancel, on the evidence of its east angles, was originally of the same period. It is probable, as has been suggested by Sir William Dugdale, [...] that the church was erected to serve the monks temporarily while the great abbey church was being rebuilt. This would account for the comparatively abnormal length of the chancel, the small nave being provided for the use of the lay brethren and parishioners [...] The font is modern." English Heritage [ Listing NGR: SP2905197725] (1968) reports an "Octagonal font of c.1893" in this church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.576349,
-1.573497
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 34′ 34.85″ N,
1° 34′ 24.59″ W
UTM: 30U 596665 5826100
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
