Another gem in Shropshire. Founded in 1410 as a collegiate church for 5 priests and 2 clerks by Lady Isabelle de Pembrugge with support for 13 paupers, to say 3 masses per day for the soul of her husband Sir Fulke de Pembrugge, the church was seized by Henry VII in 15 46 during the final stages of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and Supprssion of Chantries. The church passed through several familes, notably the Vernons and Stanleys over two centuries and contains several finely sculpted tombs and effigies.
In the grounds by the south waal lies the fictitious Little Nell's grave, created by an entrepenurial verger after Dickens set the final chapters of Little Nell in Tong.
