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The Church contains one of the country’s finest collections of medieval tombs and effigies, dating between 1410 – 1632, that trace the history of Tong Castle and its Church. Documented in detail in William Dugdale’s ‘Visitation of Shropshire’ in 1663, people still come from far and wide to visit and especially to photograph the effigies.
Tong is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 48 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish includes the village of Tong, and is ...
Tong Castle was demolished in 1954 by the Army after it had fallen into disrepair. Before the building of the A41 bypass in 1963, [170] the distance from Tong Castle to the church was 1,640 feet (500 m) alongside the body of water known as Church Pool as the traditional road ran around the church and through the village.
Tong Castle Hill är ett slott i Storbritannien. [1] Det ligger i grevskapet Shropshire och riksdelen England , i den södra delen av landet, 200 km nordväst om huvudstaden London . Tong Castle Hill ligger 84 meter över havet.
Its association with Tong Castle, with its origins dating back to Norman times and its various royal connections, feudal Lords and rural rituals (like the chaplet of roses placed on the head of the foundress, on the Birth day of St. John the Baptist each year – 24th June – ), gives the church and surrounding hamlets their enduring historical significance.
The elder, Margaret, married the Hon. Thomas Stanley, 2nd son or the 3rd Earl of Derby thus bringing the Tong Castle estate into the Stanley family. Their massive monument rather dominates the church. The pair lie on a platform supported by eight marble columns. Below, at ground level, is an effigy of their son Sir Edward Stanley who died in 1632.
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