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31: 681: 717: 669: 729: 693: 405: 705: 49: 506: 608:) of Haughmond Abbey and his wife, Margaret Newport, both of whom died in 1618, have another tomb chest, inscribed with the detail: "the said John Barker being in good perfect health at the decease of the said Margaret, fell ill the day following and deceased, leaving no issue behind." The Barker family were Shrewsbury merchants and several represented the town in Parliament. They were exceptionally wealthy, and able to marry into the upper strata of the 56: 478:. Set into the top of the south wall is a fragment of a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft. On each side of this is a carved block of similar date, one depicting a beast and the other a bird. The chancel also incorporates some re-used Roman masonry in its north wall, which contains two narrow round-headed windows and a triple lancet window. In the south wall is a blocked 373:
and wooden statues and fittings were burnt. The upper part of the tower was added in 1555, incorporating material from Haughmond Abbey. By the middle of the 18th century the population of the village was declining, and the church was becoming unstable because of the inadequate
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was erected in the churchyard in the 8th century. It is thought that the oldest existing fabric in the present church dates from the 8th or 9th century. This consists of large stones which came from the public buildings of the Roman town. By the time of the
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for the FitzAlan family. Haughmond Abbey was to be the FitzAlan burial place for several centuries but the chapter of St Andrew's church was never expanded on the scale he envisaged. However, the building itself was extended and enhanced. In about 1190 a large
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memorial; nearby are two brass plaques listing the parish dead of both World Wars. One of the First World War dead, Captain C W Wolseley-Jenkins, also has an individual memorial tablet on the east end's north wall.
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in about 1863, and in 1890 a porch was added and the tower was restored. By the end of the 19th century most of the local people had moved away. The church was declared redundant on 1 December 1980, and was
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priest's doorway. The east window has five lights, and around it are portions of blocked former windows. The vestry has two square windows, one on each side of a round-arched doorway.
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is large and round, and was constructed from the base of a former Roman column. Behind the font is a 13th-century iron-bound oak chest. The carved wooden
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were made in the 19th century re-using Roman masonry. The square bases came from farm buildings, the shafts of the columns from the Roman baths, and the
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The latter workshop also made the two-light window at the west end, depicting St Andrew and St George and the motto "AD.MAJOREM - DEI GLORIAM", as a
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and a three-light arched window. In the south wall are two-three light windows and a porch containing a doorway. The porch has a parapeted
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but the precise date of its foundation is uncertain. There is strong circumstantial evidence that a church was built in the area of the
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bell openings. The north wall of the nave is Anglo-Saxon and contains blocks from former Roman buildings. These blocks have
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with tiled roofs. It has a nave, south porch, chancel, south vestry, and west tower. The tower is divided by
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foundations. In 1763 the south aisle and chapel were demolished, and part of the chapel was converted into a
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ornamentation. The sepulchre contains traces of a wall-painting depicting Christ in Glory. The church has a
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in the 17th century. The newest bell is by John Warner and Sons of London and is dated 1877. The two-
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and biblical scenes. In the north side of the nave are windows depicting saints, made in 1920 by
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Margaret, daughter of Thomas Bromley and his wife, Isabel Lyster, portrayed on the Bromley tomb.
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List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands
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was lengthened westwards. In about 1470 the lower part of the tower was built.
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the interior of the church was damaged, the wall paintings were covered with
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of six bells. The oldest is dated 1598 and was cast by Henry Oldfield II of
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Effigy of Sir Richard Newport, St Andrew's church, Wroxeter, Shropshire.
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The church's tower, with the gate piers in front re-using Roman columns.
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to a "full convent", perhaps meaning 12, possibly in order to create a
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organ is in the west gallery and was made by Brindley of
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hangs on north wall of the nave and is painted with the
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in the Churches Conservation Trust on 18 May 1987.
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BARKER, John II (1579-1618), of Haughmond Abbey, Salop.
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A T Gaydon, R B Pugh (Editors), M J Angold, G C Baugh,
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Arms of Thomas Bromley impaled with those of his wife.
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Effigies of Thomas Bromley and his wife, Isabel Lyster.
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St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter: Information for teachers
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The nave of a stone church seen from the southwest, containing three pointed windows and a small porch, with a battlemented tower beyond
St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter is located in Shropshire
52°40′12″N 2°38′50″W / 52.6701°N 2.6472°W / 52.6701; -2.6472
OS grid reference
SJ 563 082
Wroxeter
Shropshire
Denomination
Church of England
Churches Conservation Trust
Redundant
Church
Style
Anglo-Saxon
Norman
Gothic
Materials
Sandstone
redundant
Church of England parish church
Wroxeter
Shropshire
National Heritage List for England
listed building
Churches Conservation Trust
Roman
Viroconium
Anglo-Saxon
Roman bath
preaching cross

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