St Bartholomew's Church, Moreton Corbet
St Bartholomew's church sits next door to Moreton Corbet castle which is one of Jamie's favourite sites to date.
The church has several odes to the family who built the castle but we didn't go inside as we were in a bit of a rush to get from Lancaster to Kidderminster for an extended family reunion! However, we do know that the nave and chancel is from the late Norman period even though they have been altered to the point very little of this period remains to be seen. The south aisle has become a memorial chapel to the Corbet family since the 14th century including two chest tombs and a baroque monument, but most interestingly is the rumour that the tower may have been slighted during the Civil War and were originally much higher. The current upper stages of the tower date from 1769, but they reckon it may have been taller were it not for collateral damage during those troubling times.
The Civil War isn't the only war that is remembered by the church patronised by the Corbet family. There is a framed Roll of Honour listing 46 local men who served in WWI, not all of those listed died, but are simply remembered as being brave souls who fought. It also has a war grave within the church yard from WWII and just outside of the churchyard the Parish's Celtic Cross War Memorial stands as an ode to the dead from both World Wars. You've also got memorials for two members of the Corbet family who fought in two different wars within these walls as well! We have to go back to see these impressive memorials and the stained glass dedicated to the young Corbet children who didn't make it to adulthood.
Overall we think this site is a beautiful ode to death which sounds a bit macabre, but the attention to detail here which has gone into remembering those we've lost, you can't see it as anything but a sweet shrine to those who lived within the parish. The church itself, externally, doesn't look massively special, it looks like a well looked after village church which has stood here for a while, which is of course correct, but the deeper meaning lies within for this community which is why we feel it is important to go back, that and rather morbidly we love a tomb...
If you notice that we've been using the term 'morbid' a lot and have followed us a while, it is absolutely connected to the hateful comments we received on Instagram telling us our use of the word when visiting a memorial site was incorrect and vulgar and then he went on to attack us. We've taken umbridge to this as the use of the word was correct within the context of the post which he clearly didn't bother to read and Ren has hilariously made it her mission to include the word where she can even though the event was a while ago. We wont be attacked over grammar by someone who has no respect, hasn't even bothered to read the posts we worked hard on, and uses AI to rehash other people's art and call it his own. We appreciated the support we got from the history blogging community at the time as this troll really upset us, but it was a learning curve. Despite this we felt it best to explain as it is our new word of the year.
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