page_title: St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield
section_title: Collegiate life
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield / Collegiate life
caption_attribution_description: English: Remains of the old college building, 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: Colleges of secular clergy were the dominant form for new religious foundation by the 15th century. The closest example to Battlefield was the College of St Bartholomew's Church, Tong, founded under a licence granted to Isabel of Pembridge on 25 November 1410, and so almost contemporary, although it was purely a family chantry and mausoleum, without the wider historical reference of Battlefield. There were a number of powerful older collegiate churches in the region, including those at Shrewsbury, St Peter's at Wolverhampton and St Michael's at Penkridge. These differed in significant ways from Battlefield. Blakeway comments that "a prebend in the more wealthy collegiate churches was recognised in the Middle Ages, and even much later, as a source of income for a good man of business, a clerk in the royal chancery or exchequer, or a useful member of the Roman curia." Unlike these absentee careerists, "the chantry priests formed a resident body with definite duties."
caption: Remains of the old college building, south side of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield, Shropshire
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