Transcribed from the 1889 Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal Offices edition by
David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
[Picture: Public domain book cover]
BATTLEFIELD CHURCH,
SALOP.
An Historical and Descriptive Sketch:
TOGETHER WITH
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY,
AND
FOUNDATION of THE COLLEGE OR CHANTEY.
BY THE
REV. W. G. DIMOCK FLETCHER, M.A., F.S.A.,
VICAR OF ST. MICHAEL’S, SHREWSBURY.
* * * * *
SHREWSBURY:
EDDOWES’S SHREWSBURY JOURNAL OFFICES,
1889.
[Picture: Battlefield Church]
PREFACE.
The following pages were written, at the request of the Incumbent of
Battlefield, with the object of giving to the numerous visitors to
Battlefield Church some historical and descriptive notices of that
venerable fabric, together with a brief account of the Battle of
Shrewsbury, and of the foundation of the College. They are reprinted,
with a few corrections and additions, from _Eddowes’s Shrewsbury
Journal_, in which they first appeared.
The writer has consulted Owen and Blakeway, Dugdale, Dukes, Brookes, and
other well-known authorities; but ventures to think that some hitherto
unknown facts, which have been brought to light through researches at the
Public Record Office and Public Libraries, will be found here given for
the first time. He has in view a History, on a larger scale, of this
most interesting College and Church, and will be grateful for any
additional documents or items of information relating thereto.
_February_, _1889_.