Church of King Charles the Martyr
CHURCH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236696
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of King Charles the Martyr
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236696
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of King Charles the Martyr
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR
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 KING CHARLES THE MARTYR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wem Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 47826 31634
Details
WEM RURAL C.P. NEWTOWN SJ 43 SE 5/150 Church of King - Charles the Martyr - II Chapel-of-ease, now parish church. 1869-70 by Edward Haycock, Junior, on site of C17 chapel. Rough-faced snecked sandstone with chamfered plinth and ashlar dressings; machine tile roofs with coped verges and ornamental cresting. Nave with west bellcote, chancel, south porch and north vestry. Nave: in 4 bays with plain lancets, paired to east on south; gabled south porch between first and second windows from west. West wall has 2 broad lancets linked by hoodmould with gabled bellcote above. Chancel: in 2 bays; cusped lancets on south, triple to west bay and single to east linked by cill band carried down from hoodmould of east lancet. East window of 3 broad lancets with hoodmould and moulded cill band. Lean-to vestry on north with lateral stone stack in angle with nave. Interior: double-purlin king-strut roof in 4 bays to nave and trussed rafter roof to chancel. Pointed chancel arch has elegant wrought-iron screen (c.1870) with Gothic tracery on low stone wall. Marble pulpit dated 1898 and other fittings and furnishings late C19. Late C19 stained glass including east window; 2 early C20 windows in nave commemorate victims of Boer War. Monument: plain wall memorial to Francis Chambre (died 1791) - nave west end. The parish was created from part of Wem in 1861. B.O.E. p.219; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 8 (1906) pp.708-9.
Listing NGR: SJ4782631634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 708-9
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 219
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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