St John the Baptist Church, Kinlet Shropshire

Описание: St John the Baptist Church, Kinlet Shropshire

St. John the Baptist church is the Anglican parish church located along the drive to Kinlet Hall. The church is a stone structure built by the Normans and is Grade I listed by English Heritage. Within the church there are standing monuments to Sir George Blount and his wife, Constantia, dated 1581. There are also tombs for Sir Humphrey Blount and his wife, Elizabeth and Sir John Blount and his wife, Catherine. The church was restored in 1892 by John Oldrid Scott who later designed the memorial to Major Charles Baldwyn Childe killed in Boer War 1900).

This imposing yet beautiful church stands alone in the middle of the grounds of Kinlet Hall approximately half a mile from the B4363 (Bridgnorth to Cleobury Mortimer road). The Domesday record suggests that Queen Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor and sister of King Harold, held Kinlet as part of her dowry. The present building dates from the early 13th century, although there are several details from the early Norman period .

St Catherine’s Chapel
The medieval chantry chapel in the south transept would alone be sufficient to make Kinlet famous, for there are very few places where the arrangements (eg double aumbry and piscina) can be seen so fully .In addition there is an alabaster figure of the Trinity which escaped damage during the Reformation.
Blount Chapel
Against the north wall of this transept can be seen one of the finest Elizabethan monuments in England which commemorates Sir George Blount (1531 - 1581), his wife Constantina and their two children John and Dorothy (above).