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Over a thousand years ago, a Saxon Tower was begun on a Roman Pagan site in the historic village of Claverley. Following the Norman invasion in 1066, the church was remodelled by Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who died in 1094. The tower was doubled in height and angle buttresses were added to it towards the end of the 15th century. At about the same time the north chapel was added. In 1902 the top two stages of the tower were rebuilt, faithfully copying the original design, by W. Wood Bethell.
Towards the beginning of the 13th C the interior of the Church was painted with a series of wall paintings – most famous of which, running for over 15 metres (see above), shows battling knights. These wall pictures were painted over as a result of the reformation, and creation of the the Church of England by Henry VIII, and were only rediscovered in 1902 when the Church underwent some major restoration. The work of renovation and repair continues today through fundraising by Friends of Claverley Church, and the local Parochial Church Council.
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