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North wall, middle window. This window contains fragments of glass from the previous church dating back prior to 1500. The known fragments are in the lower half of the window. Below the centre roundel to the left, we see the Eyton family motto “ Je my oblige” which is believed to have connections to a small town in France and English Captain Foulques Eyton who made a gift of stained glass during the Hundred Years War. It is said the Captains 'device' or emblem was that of a millstone or grindstone and to the right (from bottom right of roundel) we see that device which some describe as a millwheel.
Immediately below is St Christopher holding a staff. To the left and at bottom left is St Catherine with a cartwheel at bottom right. The story of St Catherine of Alexandria is that she died a martyr and was ‘broken on a wheel’. She became the patron saint of wheel-crafts.
The armorial medallions in the centre of the windows are understood to have originally been sited in the old manor house adjacent to the chapel. They are believed to be late 16th or early 17th century. At the apex of the window can be seen one of the arms of the Eyton family.
St Catherine's church is sited in a rural location in a little hamlet 2 miles from the centre of Wellington in Shropshire. The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870 described it as such.... “Eyton-upon-the-Wild-Moors, a parish in the Wellington district, Salop; on the Shrewsbury canal, 2 ½ miles N of Wellington r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Eyton, under Wellington, Salop. Acres, 1,038. Real property, £3,234. Pop., 451. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of bar-iron. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Wellington, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church is very good. Lord Herbert of Chirbury was a native. Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].”
St Catherine's is still an active church serving a small but thriving community with some members of the congregation coming from afar. For details of services and events, please see......
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Title: Osteologia avium, or, A sketch of the osteology of birds
Creator: Eyton, T. C. (Thomas Campbell), 1809-1880
Publisher: Wellington, Salop : R. Hobson
Sponsor: Wellcome Library
Contributor: Wellcome Library
Date: 1867
Language: eng
Includes bibliography and index
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Picture taken from just under the west gallery. The lights were on in the nave as the church was open for a snowdrop walk around the grounds of Eyton Hall organised by one of the Shropshire church organisations.
Talking of lighting, at the turn of the 20th century, the church was lit by gas lamps and was heated using coal. Church wardens accounts show expenses for deliveries and one records “4 gills of lamp oil 4s”. The 's' presumably means 'shillings' and a 'gill' being one fourth of a standard pint or 150 of those ridiculous 'millilitres' we use today. Still, 4 shillings for a pint of lamp oil in 1906? Seems expensive?
Electricity finally came to Eyton church 4 years after the end of the Second World War in 1949.
There are 3 windows each in the north and south walls and the nave is well lit. The pulpit is just in front of the chancel arch on the left and the reading desk on the right. The floor in the nave is tiled as is the chancel. In the early years of the 20th century the original box pews were removed and refashioned to the ones we see today. The organ is just behind the hymn number board on the right.
The semi-circular apse at the East End was added in about 1857 and provides a frame for the colourful and bright east window. Note the beautifully decorated altar cloth which in this picture was bathed in a warm light from the reflections of the east window.
St Catherine's church is sited in a rural location in a little hamlet 2 miles from the centre of Wellington in Shropshire. The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870 described it as such.... “Eyton-upon-the-Wild-Moors, a parish in the Wellington district, Salop; on the Shrewsbury canal, 2 ½ miles N of Wellington r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Eyton, under Wellington, Salop. Acres, 1,038. Real property, £3,234. Pop., 451. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of bar-iron. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Wellington, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church is very good. Lord Herbert of Chirbury was a native. Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].”
St Catherine's is still an active church serving a small but thriving community with some members of the congregation coming from afar. For details of services and events, please see......
www.achurchnearyou.com/church/4599/service-and-events/eve...
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