Place:Chapel Lawn, Shropshire, England

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NameChapel Lawn
TypeChapelry
Coordinates52.381°N 3.007°W
Located inShropshire, England
See alsoClun, Shropshire, Englandparish of which it was a chapelry
Clun Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district 1894-1967
Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district into which it was transferred in 1967
South Shropshire District, Shropshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2009
Shropshire District, Shropshire, Englandunitary authority covering the area since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog


A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Chapel Lawn from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1887:

"Chapel Lawn, vil., Clun par., S. Shropshire, 3 miles NW. of Bucknall ry. sta."
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Chapel Lawn is a small village in southwest Shropshire, England, located within the Redlake Valley, some three miles south of the small town of Clun. The name is derived from a chapel attached to Chapel Lawn Farm in the 16th century and "lawn" refers to a grassy clearing in the forest. It was big enough to merit a school being built in the mid 19th century, but children now attend the school in Bucknell. The village lies in the modern civil parish of "Clun and Chapel Lawn" and with the surrounding countryside forms one of the two wards of the parish.

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Church

St Mary's Church in the centre of Chapel Lawn was designed by Edward Haycock Snr in the lancet style and erected in 1844. It was planned to provide 232 sittings, of which 162 were declared free and unappropriated forever. Originally a Chapel of Ease of Clun parish, without an adjoining vicarage and resident priest, it was built to save parishioners the long walk to Clun. Built of stone in the style of the period, it displays the typical plain lancets, flat buttresses, and western bell gable with a wide queen post roof.

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