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St Peter, Adderley, Shropshire

Location
(52°57′6″N, 2°30′21″W)
Adderley
SJ 661 395
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Shropshire
now Shropshire
medieval St Peter
now St Peter
  • Barbara Zeitler
26 August 1999

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Feature Sets
Description

Cruciform church mainly of 1801, with a 17thc. N transept and 18thc. tower. The only Romanesque feature is the late 11thc. to early 12thc. font which is located to the to left of the S doorway.

History

At the time of DS, Adderley, along with Shavington, Spoonley and Calverhall, were held by Nigel, a clerk and physician, of Earl Roger de Montgomery. On Nigel's death Earl Roger took over his estates, but they were later forfeited to the crown. Later, Henry I gave Adderley to Alan de Dunstanvill.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The inscription on the font: 'Hic male primus homo fruitur cum coniuge pomo' is translated in Pevsner as 'Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife' (Newman et al 2006, 99). Pevsner and Eyton comment on the oddity of the inscription in relation to a font (Eyton 1860, 5-6).

Bibliography

J. C. Anderson,Shropshire: Its Early History and Antiquities. 1864, 400.

D. H. S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, 8, 1906, 662-666.

R. W. Eyton, The Antiquities of Shropshire, X, 1860, 5-6.

J. Newman and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Shropshire. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2006, 99-100.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Shropshire. Harmondsworth: Middlesex, 1958, 53.