Note 24 — ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS.
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The site of St. Michael’s church cannot be satisfactorily stated. Messrs. Owen and Blakeway consider that Speed’s map represents it as standing near the river towards the area of the present county gaol; but this must be a mistake, for Speed intended to shew the bastion tower of the castle. The church being probably only a very small structure, and designed by its founder (Roger de Montgomery) as a place of worship for those who inhabited the keep, it doubtless stood, as its name implies, WITHIN the walls (similar to the one at Ludlow Castle), and was taken down about 1605, before Speed’s map was published. The present detached part of St. Julian’s parish in the direction of Castle Foregate formed its parochial boundary.