page_title: St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield
section_title: Life in common
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield / Collegiate life / Life in common
caption_attribution_description: English: Vestige of doorway intended to connect church building to former college residence, south side of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield, Shropshire.
context_page_description: St Mary Magdalene's Church is in the village of Battlefield, Shropshire, England. It was built on the site of the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury between Henry IV and Henry "Hotspur" Percy, and was originally intended as a chantry, a place of intercession and commemoration for those killed in the fighting. It is probably built over a mass burial pit. It was originally a collegiate church staffed by a small community of chaplains whose main duty was to perform a daily liturgy for the dead. Roger Ive, the local parish priest, is generally regarded as the founder, although the church received considerable support and endowment from Henry IV. After the dissolution of the college and chantry in 1548, the building was used as the local parish church and it underwent serious decay, punctuated by attempts at rebuilding from the mid-18th century. A restoration in Victorian times was controversial in intention, scope and detail, although many original features remain. Today it is a redundant Anglican church. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
context_section_description: The chaplains at Battlefield initially had quarters in a three-story building next to the south side of the chancel and there are still visible remains of this. Roger Philips acquired two parcels of land close to the south gate of the church and built three chambers on each to replace the old building. As he approached death in 1478 he settled these on the chaplains, on condition that they celebrate his anniversary on the Saturday after St Martin's Day (11 November) and pay 8d. annual rent to the Hussey family. It is possible that a room in the church tower, which had a fireplace, also served as quarters for a resident priest.
  The duties and routines of the chaplains are covered in the will of Roger Ive, This was made on 30 October 1444 and enrolled later in the Close Rolls. In the will Ive mentions two deceased chaplains whose souls should be prayed for: William Howyk and Thomas Kyrkeby. The executors of the will include three more chaplains: William Michell, Richard Jewet and John Ive, a total of five, and possibly the original chaplains.
  Ive confirms that the chaplains then lived in a single manse, which had a shared buttery and kitchen. They had a single large dining table with two benches and a substantial batterie de cuisine, as well as 20 pewter vessels. These and all the other furnishings and fittings Ive bequeathed to them: up to this point they had been his own personal possessions. The two daily meals, dinner and supper, were to be eaten together, with the Master, in the common dining hall: not privately or away from the premises. The annual boarding charge was to be four marks. They were under a general duty of obedience, sworn to the master on admission. Not only were they to eat together, but they must not leave the college without the master or warden's permission, on pain of a 3s. 4d. fine. The penalty for keeping a wife or concubine was to be permanent expulsion from the college and forfeiture of any outstanding salary. They had been accustomed to receive a salary of eight marks each from the proceeds of St Michael's on Wyre but Ive decreed that they should receive a pay rise of two marks, on condition that they recite a special collect for his soul on his anniversary, together with a Placebo or Vespers of the dead and a Dirige or Matins of the dead, and a Requiem on the following day, in addition to the regular masses for the kings, the Hussey family and the battle-dead.
caption: Night door for chaplains to enter the church from their quarters. The height has been diminished by raising of the floor level during the restoration.
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