Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175850
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175850
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61058 03982
Details
SHEINTON C.P. SHEINTON SJ 60 SW 5/112 Church of St Peter and 13.6.58 St Paul GV II*
Parish church. Medieval fabric, partly re-built in 1660s, thoroughly restored 1854. Uncoursed limestone rubble with coursed rubble to C19 parts, plain tile roofs with coped stone verges. Nave with belfry, chancel, north aisle and south porch. Nave: medieval or C17 fabric on south side with 2-light Decorated-style window (c.1854) to east of mid-C19 gabled stone porch; similar window to west wall, corbelled-out timber framed belfry above probably C17 but considerably restored, close-set vertical posts with 2 middle rails and quatrefoil frieze to top, twin trefoil-headed openings below wide spreading eaves of pyramidal roof with brass weathercock; rectangular stair turret to north and lean-to 2-bay north aisle with paired cusped lancets, both c.1854. Chancel: south side has cusped lancet with blind lowside window below to left of pointed doorway and a 2-light Decorated-style window to right, all c.1854; north side also with mid-C19 Decorated- style window to east but retains medieval fabric and has an early C14 cusped lancet with blocked lowside window below to west; east window of 3 lights with reticulated tracery (c.1854). Interior: round-headed south doorway has massive plank and muntin door said to come from Buildwas Abbey (q.v. under Buildwas C.P.), nail-studded with long fleur- de-lys pointed strap hinges, the upper bent at right-angles to allow space for a small inset round-arched door with strap hinges on the inside; double hammer-beam roof to nave in 3 bays (outer trusses restored) supported on elaborately carved wall brackets, straight wind- braces and V-struts from collars; the belfry rests on 2 wooden posts with arch bracing, tie beams and quatrefoil struts - a stone in the north wall of the nave is lettered "RICD HARNAGE/RH 1669/GEO.HARNAGE/1845"; mid-C19 pointed chancel arch; trussed rafter roof to chancel with moulded eaves cornice probably C14, although some of the decorative motifs to the cornice (including ball-flower and dog-tooth ornament) are probably mid- C19; trefoil-headed piscina probably also C14 and 2 mid-C17 chairs flank altar; pulpit also C17 and some of the pews are of this date (although one to front on north side of nave has date 1716); plain apparently mid- C19 font on circular plinth and C19 stained glass in East window by H. Hughes (1877). Monument: remarkable effigy of a recumbent female figure, perhaps a child, only 0.7m long, and probably C14 - now at east end of nave but said to have been found in chancel during C19 restoration. The church occupies a prominent position in the village on high, probably partly man-made, mound. B.o.E., p.242; D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 6 (1903), Pp. 506-7.
Listing NGR: SJ6105803982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258899
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 506-7
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 242
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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