St Mary, Billingsley, Shropshire

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Location
(52°27′24″N, 2°24′27″W)
Site Location
Billingsley
National Grid Reference
SO 724 844
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
Visit Date
29 Jul 2000

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Description

Single-aisled church, largely 19thc in Neo-Romanesque style. There are two 12thc S doorways and a 12thc font.

History

Billingsley is referred to in Domesday Book as one of the 18 berewicks of the Manor of Morville. The church was a chapel belonging to Morville Church. 

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Exterior Decoration

Miscellaneous

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The masonry blocking up the S doorway suggests that the doorway was blocked up at a fairly early stage after its completion.
The animal head to the R of the blocked up S doorway resembles the animal heads on the corbel tables at Diddlebury and Linley.

Bibliography

Anon, 'Billingsley', leaflet, n.d

D. H. S. Cranage, An architectural account of the churches of Shropshire, vol I, pt. 4, London 1894-1912, 274-5.

R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, London 1856, vol I, 64-7. 

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Shropshire, Harmondsworth 1958, 75.