Church of Immanuel
CHURCH OF IMMANUEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213355
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Immanuel
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF IMMANUEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213355
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Immanuel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF IMMANUEL
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 IMMANUEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Prees
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 58987 32702
Details
PREES C.P. FAULSGREEN SJ 53 SE 7/71 Church of Immanuel - - II Parish church. 1856 by Benjamin Ferrey with later transepts. Red brick (English bond) with bands of blue engineering brick and ashlar dressings; machine tile roofs with fishscale bands and coped verges on carved stone kneelers. Dentilled eaves cornice supported by brick corbel table with ornamental brick band at cill level all around main body of church; similar band to transepts. Nave and chancel in one, formerly with belfry and shingle spirelet at junction; later north and south transepts (organ chamber and vestry respectively); south porch. Nave: south side has 2 quatrefoils at different levels to west of porch and a paired lancet with roundel above to east; west wall has 2 lancets with elaborately cusped rose window and a late C20 gabled bellcote; north side has 3 paired lancets with roundels above, identical to that on south, easternmost cut by transept. Chancel: 2 trefoil-headed lancets with cusped trefoils above on north and an elaborately cusped east window of 3 lancets. Porch with triple-chamfered doorway, north transept (1898) and south transept (c.1904) in similar style to rest of church. North transept has foundation stone laid by Isabella, Viscountess Hill, April 30th, 1898. Interior: arch-braced roof in 6 bays with bracing for former spirelet still visible at junction between nave and chancel. Mid- to late C19 fittings and furnishings; octagonal font with religious monograms and a Greek palindrome and the stone pulpit with elaborately carved foliage decoration being the most notable original features. Elaborately carved organ of 1898; west gallery. B.O.E. p.130; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 8 (1906) p.689.
Listing NGR: SJ5898732702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260528
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 689
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 130
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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