Aston / Aston juxta Birmingham / Estone

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: ca. 1851?

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Image Source: engraving in James Cornish' Birmingham Illustrated: Cornish's Strangers' Guide through Birmingham (1851)

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in William Dargue's 'A history of Birmingham churches... from A to Y" [http://ahistoryofbirminghamchurches.jimdo.com/aston-ss-peter-paul/] [accessed 26 February 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19733AST
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Wilton Lane, Aston, West Midlands, B6 6QA
Country Name: England
Location: West Midlands, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4144, NNE of Birmingham city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill [in Domesday]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
There is an entry for this Aston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0889/aston/] [accessed 26 February 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, through there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 7, 1964) notes: "The ancient parish church of ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, Aston, may be assumed to have existed since the time of Domesday or earlier, for Domesday Book mentions a priest at Aston. [...] The parish church, which stands close to Aston Hall at the junction of Witton Lane and Park Road, is a stone building consisting of a chancel with north organ chamber and south chapel, nave, north and south aisles, porch and west tower with a tall spire. [...] Only the tower is ancient, dating from the 15th century. The spire was rebuilt in 1776. [...] The rest of the church was thoroughly rebuilt between 1879 and 1890. [...] Most of the furniture is modern." Dargue's 'A history of Birmingham churches... from A to Y' [http://ahistoryofbirminghamchurches.jimdo.com/aston-ss-peter-paul/] [accessed 26 February 2015] notes" : "In front of the tower arch is the font of 1881 with an elaborate cover designed by Chatwin." [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.507, -1.8797
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 25.2″ N, 1° 52′ 46.92″ W
UTM: 30U 576036 5818020

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.