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Boraston Church, Boraston, Shropshire

Location
(52°19′36″N, 2°34′9″W)
Boraston Church, Boraston
SO 613 700
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Shropshire
now Shropshire
medieval Hereford
now Hereford
  • Barbara Zeitler
07 Nov 1999

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Feature Sets
Description

Single-aisled church, largely 19thc. Blocked-up, plain, round-headed 12thc doorway on N nave wall. Also some remains of a 12thc S doorway. A 12thc font is at W end of nave.

History

Also known as Buraston with Whetmore, Boraston was a chapel of Burford church.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

According to Pevsner, the font is c. 1700, but, according to information in the church, it comes from Buildwas Abbey, which would suggest an earlier date. The church has no known dedication.

Bibliography

D. H. S. Cranage, An architectural account of the churches of Shropshire, part 3, London 1894-1912, 236.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, Harmondsworth 1958, 77.