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Claverley, Shropshire
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Claverley
Location within Shropshire
Population1,620 (2011 Census) [1]
OS grid reference SO792934
Civil parish
  • Claverley
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Wolverhampton
Postcode district WV5
Dialling code 01746
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
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Shropshire
52°32′17″N2°18′22″W / 52.538°N 2.306°W / 52.538; -2.306

Claverley is a village and civil parish in east Shropshire, England. The parish also includes the hamlets of Beobridge, Hopstone, Upper Aston, Ludstone, Heathton and a number of other small settlements.

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Claverley village is east of the market town of Bridgnorth, near the Staffordshire county boundary. The village has two public houses, The Plough and The Crown. Originally there were three pubs (top middle and bottom) however the bottom pub was converted into apartments after closing in the late 2010's.

On the edge of the village is the Arts and Crafts style mansion, Brook House; it was built in 1937 for the Gibbons family, who made their money as lock and window merchants in Wolverhampton. [2]

Church

The Church of England parish church of All Saints dates from the 11th century and has a rare 13th-century wall painting. On the north side of the nave, and dated to around 1200, a frieze of painted scenes some 50 feet (15 m) long shows a series of 15 knights in armour, mostly engaged in single combat. [3] It has been suggested that this portrays scenes from the 5th-century poem Psychomachia , a battle between virtues and vices, by Prudentius. [4] A recent theory is that the knight with the horn is Roland (the only surviving medieval mural of this hero) and that the Holy Cross is the unifying theme of the mural scheme. [5]

There are also a number of tombs of the Gatacre family, who dominated the parish from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. In the Tudor period they were closely associated with religiously conservative and recusant circles. The chapels in the church were originally their private preserve.

Notable people

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  2. ↑ "James Gibbons Ltd by Frank Spittle". Localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2006. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Ernest W., Tristram (1944). English Medieval Wall Painting: The Twelfth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 111.
  4. ↑ Caiger-Smith, A (1963). English Medieval Mural Paintings. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 11.
  5. ↑ Christopher Barrett (2012). 'Roland and Crusade Imagery in an English Royal Chapel', The Antiquaries Journal, vol.92, pp. 129-168.
  6. ↑ The History of Parliament: Members 1509–1558 – BROKE, Robert (Author: Helen Miller)
  7. ↑ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "GATACRE, Thomas (by 1533-93), of London". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
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  9. ↑ "Fearsome Mary and her fight to rid TV of 'filth'". Shropshire Star. 11 October 2021. pp. 20, 29.Report by Toby Neal, part of 'Great Lives' series on Midlands worthies. She was reportedly living there 1965 and 1968.
  10. ↑ "Gerry Harris 1935-2020". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. 28 July 2019.
  11. ↑ Watts, Matt (13 September 2024). "The Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades charged with engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour". The Evening Standard.

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