St Mary's Church, Stottesdon
| Church of St Mary | |
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Stottesdon, Shropshire | |
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_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7546468.jpg) St Mary's Church in Stottesdon | |
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| Grid reference: | SO672828 |
| Location: | 52°26’35"N, 2°29’0"W |
| History | |
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The Church of St Mary in Stottesdon in Shropshire is a remarkable church of Anglo-Saxon origin, and remains an active parish church, in the Diocese of Hereford.
The church contains a number of old and interesting relics including a n Anglo-Saxon tympanum, carbed with a hunting scene, as a lintel above the equally Saxon west door, now protected from the elements by the later Norman tower. The church also has a sumptuously carved font.
The church is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The stone font was created around 1138, by the legendary Hereford School of Romanesque Sculpture.
In the early modern period, in 1620, the church gained a splendidly carved Jacobean wooden pulpit, while the opening of the twentieth century in 1901 saw the addition of an Arts & Crafts rood screen.
The tower has four bells recast in 1752 by Abel Rudhall of Gloucester and a turret clock from 1855 by Joyce of Whitchurch.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about St Mary's Church, Stottesdon) |
- St Mary's, Stottesdon: A Church Near You
- St Mary's, Stottesdon: National Churches Trust