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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHIFNAL, or SHIFENAL

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 857 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHIFNAL, or SHIFENAL , a market town in the Newport (N.). parliamentary division of Shropshire, England, 154 M. N.W. from London on the Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury line of the
Great
  Western railway. Pop. (1901) 3321. The church of St Andrew is cruciform and full of fine details of
late
  Norman, Early English and Decorated
work
 . Trade is mainly agricultural, and cattle-fairs are held. There are large iron-works. The name of the town was Idsall when in 1591 a fund was raised by royal favour in Shropshire and neighbouring counties in order to rebuild it after a serious fire.
Within 6 m. E. of Shifnal are Tong, Boscobel and the nunnery of White Ladies. Tong Castle shares with the castle of the same name in Kent the legend of the dealings of the Saxon Hengest with the British chieftain Vortigern. The medieval building was demolished
late
  in the 18th century, and the present castle erected in mingled
Gothic
  and Moorish styles. Tong church, of fine early Perpendicular
work
 , contains a remarkable
series
  of ornate tombs, mainly of the 15th and 16th centuries, to members of the Vernon and Stanley families, former owners of the castle.
The Golden Chapel on the south side is rich late Perpendicular, with a roof of fan-tracery, showing signs of the
original
  decoration in colours. The mansion of Boscobel is famous as the
house
  in which Charles II. was concealed in 1651 after an adventurous journey from Worcester, where his arms had failed before those of Cromwell. The
secret
  chamber which hid him is preserved, but he also found
refuge
  in a tree of the forest which then surrounded Boscobel. A tree close to the
house
  still bears the name of Charles's oak, but tradition goes no further than to assert that it grew from an acorn of the
original
  tree. White Ladies was a Cistercian nunnery; and the slight remains are Norman. The pleasant wooded
district
  was formerly part of Brewood Forest, which extended into Staffordshire.


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