Posenhall

INFORMATION

FontID: 19933POS
Church/Chapel: Chapel of ease [disappeared]
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
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
Date: ca. 1331?
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
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-. Accessed: 2015-07-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.