United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, COLEHAM HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247028
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, COLEHAM HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247028
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, COLEHAM HEAD
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:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, COLEHAM HEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49671 12386
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SE COLEHAM HEAD 653-1/16/210 (East side) United Reformed Church
GV II
Congregational church, now United Reformed church. Dated 1863. By G Bidlake of Wolverhampton. Rusticated white stone with white ashlar and red sandstone bands. Welsh slate roof. PLAN: south-west tower and spire, nave and vestigial chancel. EXTERIOR: high 2-stage tower, with short angle buttresses and triple foiled lancet window over in high lower stage. Second stage partly ashlar faced, with paired bell-chamber lights with banded shafts. Brooch spire with lucarnes, finial and weather cock. Deep moulding to stilted arched doorway projecting in a steep vestigial gable in buttressed west wall of nave. 5-light Decorated-style window over with simple foiled circles. Nave of 5 bays with plate traceried windows of 2 lights in lower stage, 3 stepped lights in clerestory. The bays are divided by buttresses. Coped east and west gables. Short chancel with domestic windows in lower stage, plate tracery above, and high lancet window in east wall. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1858-).
Listing NGR: SJ4967112386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
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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