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St Mary, Whitton, Shropshire

Location
(52°21′9″N, 2°37′26″W)
Whitton
SO 576 729
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Shropshire
now Shropshire
medieval Hereford
now Hereford
  • Barbara Zeitler
30 Jul 2000

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Feature Sets
Description

An unaisled church with a 13thc W tower. Pointed plain tower arch. 12thc nave and chancel, and a blocked-up pointed N doorway, 13thc. The N transept is late 19thc. Two round-headed windows in N wall of nave, one in S wall of nave, other windows are later. The only Romanesque feature is a 12thc S doorway decorated with sculpture.

History

The settlement does not appear in either the Domesday Book or the 1291 Taxatio. The church was a chapelry of Burford.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Bibliography

D. H. S. Cranage, An architectural account of the churches of Shropshire, vol. I, pt. 3, London 1901, 255-6.

R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, London 1854, vol. IV, 341-3.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, London 1958, 317.