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 | | The lower part of the tower and the S. transept date from the i3th century; the nave, clerestory, upper part of the tower and N. transept from the isth; the chancel was rebuilt in the restoration, completed in 1865, with an apsidal termination. |
 | | The town is governed by a mayor, 12 aldermen and 36 councillors. |
 | | The town of Wolverhampton (Handone, Wolvernehamptone, W ollernehampton) seems to have grown up round the church of St Mary, afterwards the royal free chapel of Wolverhampton, probably founded in 996 by Wulfruna, widow of the earl of Northampton, who in that year endowed it with extensive lands. |
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