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St Mary The Virgin

Bromfield

Shropshire

Benedictine Priory church, now Parish Church. C1155, with C13

Architectural Features

C16 additions.

plain tile roof.

Blocked Norman chancel arch forms east end, with large round arch to north

tower forming porch, to northwest, probably late C13.

South transept replaced by C16 house built by Charles Foxe after the Dissolution

destroyed by fire late C17: now fragmentary with mullion and transom windows.

INTERIOR: painted plaster ceiling c1672 by Thomas Francis, with Angels with scrolls, the Symbol of the Trinity, and clouds

glass by Kempe in west window and north aisle, with C16 Flemish roundels in Vestry. (Cranage, D.H.S.,: An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire: PP. 70-76).