Posenhall

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19933POS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1331?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of ease [disappeared]
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km from Broseley, 4 km. NE of Much Wenlock
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Hereford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the 14thC chapel of ease here?)
Font Notes:
We found no entry for Posenhall in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "Posenhall, a small extra-parochial place, represents part of a former chapelry and township in Much Wenlock parish [...] In 1331 Posenhall chapel was confirmed to Wenlock priory as a dependency of Holy Trinity parish church, Much Wenlock. [...] The chaplaincies of Posenhall and Barrow were then linked; indeed the chapel at Posenhall may have gone, for in 1321 Hamon Corn, chaplain, had been granted all the lands of Barrow chapel in Barrow and Posenhall and obliged to keep the glebe buildings in Posenhall (where no chapel was mentioned) and Barrow in repair. [...] Certainly there was no chapel by 1618 [...] Posenhall's inhabitants attended Barrow church and made payments to the minister there."

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.