page_title: Shrawley
section_title: Church of St Mary
hierarchical_section_title: Shrawley / Church of St Mary
caption_attribution_description: St Mary&#39;s church, Shrawley
context_page_description: Shrawley is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England. The village is situated on the western bank of the River Severn. The northern and southern boundaries of the parish are two small tributaries of the River Severn, Dick Brook to the north and Shrawley Brook to the south. To the west is Hillhampton, the north west and north is the parish of Astley and to the south Holt.
  The B4196 road runs throughout the village from the A433 at the Holt Heath boundary in the south to the Astley boundary at Glazenbridge on Dick Brook in the north.
  There are 22 miles of footpaths around Shrawley.
context_section_description: The parish church, St Mary, dates back to around 1100 and is a Grade I listed building. It has 14th and 15th century windows and crenellated parapets, 16th century south porch, 17th century tower and 19th century work throughout show continuous development of the building.
  On 1 April 1978 the ownership of the Rector's Glebe Land, in Shrawley, which consisted of 128 acres of land and a small wood was transferred from the Rector's ownership to that of the Diocese of Worcester, in line with the rest of the UK.
  In the autumn of 1978 the ecclesiastical Parish of Shrawley was amalgamated with that of the neighbouring parish of St Michael's, Great Witley, together with its chapel in Little Witley, to form a single parish of Shrawley and The Witleys and with Abberley to form a united Benefice. Shrawley church is in the Stourport Deanery.
  The church has a virtually complete set of high box pews.
  The reredos is by William Percival Starmer (1877–1961). Behind and above the reredos is a stained glass window by James Powell and Sons installed in 1921.
  On the west wall of the West End Gallery are the coat of arms of George III. and two hatchments. The most southern of these that of Thomas Shrawley Vernon.
  On the right hand of the doors, in the porch, is a Norman holy water stoup which survived the Reformation.
  Immediately on the left inside the church is a Norman font with trumpet scallop carving and an elaborate 17th century wooden conical cover.
  Just outside the porch of the church is a base of a medieval stone cross. This is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The cross itself was destroyed during the Civil War. It is now mounted by a horizontal sundial made by Samuel Thorp in 1819 and inscribed, "Ab Hoc Momento pendet Aeternitas." It has been suggested that the cross may have been used by peripatetic priests, as a Preaching cross, before the church building and the church itself was deliberated built to the north of the cross itself beyond the shadow of the cross.
  The tower contains a ring of 6 bells.
caption: St Mary's church
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