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St Mary, Selattyn, Shropshire

Location
(52°53′57″N, 3°5′33″W)
Selattyn
SJ 266 341
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Shropshire
now Shropshire
  • Barbara Zeitler
25 August 1999

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Feature Sets
Description

The church consists of a 13thc nave and chancel, 18thc tower, 19thc N aisle, N and S transepts. There is a font at W end of the nave close to S doorway. It probably dates from the 12thc or early 13thc.

History

The settlement itself is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but it may have been part of the nearby (although very small) Weston Rhyn, which was held in TRE by Siward the Fat and in 1086 by Reginald the sheriff. Probably no church existed until 13thc. According to the church guide (see bibliography), the church is first mentioned in Papal taxation records in 1292.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

While the church guide dates the font to the 13thc, the form and details of decoration could be safely dated to 12thc. The leaf motif is similar to some of the leaves on the capitals in the nave at Morville, but the motif there is more three-dimensional.

The church was extensively restored in 1891-2.

Bibliography

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications or England’s Patron Saints, London 1899, III, 249.

D. H. S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, 10 vols, 1894-1912, 9, 830-33.

J. Lawson, ‘A Walk around Selattyn Church’, leaflet, 1986, rev. 1993.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, Harmondsworth 1958, 240.