Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, THE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055072
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, THE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055072
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, THE COMMON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, THE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bayston Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48720 08842
Details
SJ 40 NE BAYSTON HILL C.P. THE COMMON (north side)
5/7 Christ Church -
- II
Parish church. 1843 by Edward Haycock with chancel of 1886. Uncoursed conglomerate rubble to nave and chancel with sandstone ashlar dressings and to top 2 stages of tower, machine tile roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower and south-east vestry. Tower: thin and unbuttressed in 4 stepped stages; blocked lancet to second stage and 4 lancet openings to top belfry with crenellated parapet; nail-studded west door in painted arch. Buttressed nave in 3 bays has broad lancets with hoodmoulds on north and moulded eaves cornice. Short one-bay chancel, east window of paired lancets with circular opening above, moulded eaves cornice; lean-to vestry on south. Interior: not inspected, but said to have an elaborately trussed roof and a late C19 octagonal font with quatrefoil panelling. The parish was formed in 1844 from part of Condover and St Julian's, Shrewsbury. D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shrewsbury (1894-1908), p.971.
Listing NGR: SJ4872008842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259308
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, The Churches of Shrewsbury, (1894-1908), 971
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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