Priorslee / Priors Lee

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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Peter's Church, Church Rd, Priorslee. Built in 1836 from bricks made a few hundred yards west at Snedshill Brick Works. It was built here as a replacement for the old chapel half a mile east in Priorslee village, so as to be nearer the majority of parishioners. The building of thousands of houses east and south of the A5 has left this church as isolated at the westernmost end of Priorslee as its predecessor was to the east."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church, Church Rd, Priorslee. Built in 1836 from bricks made a few hundred yards west at Snedshill Brick Works. It was built here as a replacement for the old chapel half a mile east in Priorslee village, so as to be nearer the majority of parishioners. The building of thousands of houses east and south of the A5 has left this church as isolated at the westernmost end of Priorslee as its predecessor was to the east."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike White, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2008 by Mike White [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858270] [accessed 10 July 2015]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 19934PRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Priorslee Chapel [-of-ease to Shiffnal's St. Andrew; demolished 1838]
Church Notes: chapel demolished in 1838; present church 1837
Church Address: 72 Priorslee Road, Telford TF2 9HQ United Kingdom
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km WNW of Shiffnal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC chapel demolished in 1838?)
Font Notes:
No entry for Priorslee found in the Domesday survey. The entry for Wombridge in the Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 11, 1985) notes: "A chapel of ease at Priorslee in Shifnal parish, probably of 12th-century build, survived to serve the needs of the area's increasing industrial population in the later 18th century and, having been replaced by a new church of ST. PETER in 1836, was demolished in 1838. [...] In the mid 18th century the old chapel was occasionally served (like Wombridge) by William Laplain and Stephen Panting, successive vicars of Wrockwardine (1740-87). [...] baptisms took place there." [NB: we have no information on the font of the old chapel here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 537838 5837635

REFERENCES

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