CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND

CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND, ST ALKMOND'S PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254774
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND, ST ALKMOND'S PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254774
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND, ST ALKMOND'S PLACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ALKMUND, ST ALKMOND'S PLACE

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 49271 12487

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW ST ALKMOND'S PLACE 653-1/15/522 Church of St Alkmund 10/01/53 (Formerly Listed as: ST ALKMOND'S SQUARE Church of St Alkmund)

GV II*

Parish church. 1794-5 incorporating C15 tower. John Carline and Tilley. White sandstone with leaded roofs. West tower and spire, nave with lean-to aisles, and short chancel. EXTERIOR: 4-stage west tower of coursed and squared rubble with Perpendicular west door with square hoodmould flanked by ogee niches. 4-light window over, and bell chamber opening of 3-lights. Pierced tracery to parapet, angle buttresses terminating in pinnacles. Spire with lucarnes. Ashlar to aisles, divided into 6 bays by thin pilaster buttresses with recessed panelling. Windows mostly of c1900, Decorated style, with stone tracery, but west windows have cast-iron tracery which dates from 1795. Cast-iron tracery in east window. Small porch with clustered columns carrying flat entablature in NE angle over Early English-style doorway. INTERIOR: a single space with a very short chancel behind chamfered arch carried on corbels. High chamfered west tower arch with abaci continuing as string course over west wall is the only visible fabric of medieval church. Flat panelled ceiling with main beams carried on wall posts on corbels. Pews said to date from 1795, but panelling and ceiling along with organ and screen to NE and screen to SE chapel are c1900. STAINED GLASS: 2 panels in north aisle, early C20. East window, Our Lady Queen of Heaven by Francis Eginton, 1795, a painting on glass. MEMORIALS: N aisle: Thomas and Mary Jones, 1715. Marble urn in pedimented surround with swags and putti etc; Sir Thomas Jones, 1702, by James Paget, an inscribed panel surmounted by broken pediment on Corinthian shafts flanked by foliate scrolls. Various simpler marble slabs in E and S wall of S aisle, and 3 re-sited brass figures of c1500, mounted on a board. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1958-).

Listing NGR: SJ4927112487

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Legacy System number:: 457917
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.