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Title: Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by Mr. Frederick Calvert, engraved on steel by Mr. T. Radclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: West, William, 1770-1854 Calvert, Frederick Radclyffe, T
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Publisher: Birmingham : William Emans...
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four miles east of Shrewsbury. According to Pennant,Henry IV. having with difficulty, after slaughtering five thousand persons in the conflict,put a period to the contest there, and abated the ardour of pursuit, halted to return thanksfor his victory (in a bad cause,) on the field of battle, which he sanctified andcommemorated by decreeing the erection of the collegiate church at Battlefield. It hadformerly a college for secular priests, founded in memory of that event, which was endowedwith several lands, on condition that the priests should say mass for the souls for such aswere slain in battle. Part of the church is in good preservation, and is thus described in the Beauties ofEngland and Wales.— This church consists of a nave and choir, without aisles, and atthe west end a very well-proportioned square tower, embattled and crowned with eightpinnacles. The whole is lighted by twelve handsome gothic windows, with a large eastern * Lelands Itinerary, vol. viii., p. 129. t Phillips.
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— OF SHROPSHIRE. 83 window. Those of the choral division are in an earlier style than the rest, and were,doubtless, the fabric built in the time of the founder. The western portion, by its styleand inscription on the tower, appears to have been erected in the reign of Henry VII.Over the cast window, in a niche, is a statue of Henry IV. Although the church is stillparochial, the parish, in 1821, contained only thirteen houses and sixty-four inhabitants.Many years previously to that, the nave and steeple were in a ruinous state and deprivedof their roofs. The chancel is only used for Divine Service, and has within the last centurybeen fitted up in a modern and incongruous fashion. The whole was entire within thememory of persons now living. The choir was furnished with handsome stalls, and thewindows were resplendent with very fine painted glass, representing the history of thedeath of John the Baptist, with various portraits of the warriors who fell on the Kingsside in the battle of

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