St Peter, Cound
On the front door of the church is a medieval sanctuary knocker. Anyone fleeing from justice could obtain temporary sanctuary in the
church by striking the knocker. This gave both the pursuer and the pursued time to reflect and maybe come to an amicable solution. In medieval England, a church door could mean the difference between life and death.
If a fugitive reached the church and touched the sanctuary knocker, they could claim the Church's protection.
Even the king's officers had to respect this right.
The most famous surviving example is the magnificent bronze knocker on the north door of Durham Cathedral, dating from around AD 1100.
Sanctuary wasn't a way to escape justice forever.
St Peter's is in a pleasant rural location, having been built over a period of 600 years. The rather squat tower is clearly of at least two different dates.
There is a wonderful medieval door. 
The lovely font with its rosettes is from about 1150AD.
There are fragments of a doom painting, the only one in Shropshire.
A mysterious head on the south wall.
A lovely and interesting church, well worth a visit.