St Mary, Neen Savage, Shropshire

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Location
(52°23′37″N, 2°28′49″W)
Site Location
Neen Savage
National Grid Reference
SO 674 774
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Shropshire now Shropshire
Diocese
medieval Hereford now Hereford
Dedication
medieval St Mary now St Mary
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Barbara Zeitler
  • Ron Baxter
Visit Date
30 Jul 2000 (BZ), 09 May 2017 (RB)

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Description

Neen Savage is a village in the SE of the county, 10 mile W of Kidderminster and a mile N of Cleobury Mortimer. It consists of a small settlement alongside a ford of the River Rea. The church, on the E bank of the river, consists of a nave, chancel and W tower, all 12thc in origin. Romanesque features are found in the tower arch, the blocked N nave doorway, and a S chancel doorway heavily restored in 1882.  

History

The Domesday Survey records 2 holdings in Neen Savage. The first was held by Wulfric in 1066, and by Richard from Ralph de Mortimer in 1086. It paid geld for 1½ hides. The second was held by Hunning in 1066 and by Ingelrann from Ralph de Mortimer in 1086. This was valued at 4 hides and had a mill. In 1179 Hugh de Mortimer gave the church to Wigmore Abbey, to which it belonged until the Dissolution. 

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Interior Features

Arches

Tower/Transept arches
Comments/Opinions

The interlocking lily motif resembles that on the labels at St Mary, Shrewsbury, Little Ness and Halford.

Bibliography

P. Byran, 'St. Mary's C. of E., Neen Savage', booklet (Angel Bank, 1998). 

D. H. S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, 10 vols, 1894-1912, vol. I, pt. 4, 340-2. 

R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, 12 vols, London 1854-60, vol. IV, 232-36. 

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, Harmondsworth 1958, 215-6.