Churches Tourism Association

The twenty seven (27) churches of the Clun Forest Deanery, the most rural part of Shropshire, have come together in a new visitor promotion.

 

Norman Morris, vicar of nine of the featured buildings and organiser of the project, says “It’s a visitors guide to all our churches from the large church of St John the Baptist in Bishop’s Castle to the tiny church of the same name in Myndtown. We may be very rural, some might even say remote, but we want to encourage visitors and raise the profile of all our churches."

 

The brochure features a picture of every one of the churches and highlights some of the special points of interest in each building and churchyard. Visitors will know that they can see a yew tree that is two thousand five hundred years old (2500) in Norbury churchyard, spot a a twelfth century (12thC) font originally used for corn in Snead (Sned), carved Jacobean pews in Lydnury North and twenty first century (21stC) stained glass in the Norman church in Clunbury! More than half of the churches featured are Grade I or Grade II* listed buildings, which indicates how important they are to the landscape.

 

The brochure, Explore Clun Forest Churches, will be available from all the churches and through Visitor Information Centres and other tourist attractions.