Church of St Giles
Church of St Giles, Wenlock Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1254938
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Giles, Wenlock Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1254938
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Giles, Wenlock Road
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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 Giles, Wenlock Road
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 50730 11841
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 1 September 2022 to amend the description, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ51SW
653-1/5/691
SHREWSBURY
WENLOCK ROAD (east side)
Church of St Giles
10/01/53
GV
II*
Church. Foundation and some surviving structure of C12, extended successively thereafter, and extensively restored by Samuel Pountney Smith in 1860-63. Coursed and squared sandstone, with plain tiled roof.
PLAN: nave with north aisle and chapel, chancel.
EXTERIOR: western bellcote on gable, carried by central buttress pierced and flanked by lancet windows. South wall possibly largely C12, coursed and squared sandstone, raised later. Simple roll-moulded doorway in timber porch added in restoration. Trefoiled and plate traceried windows of one- and two-lights, inserted in restoration. Organ loft and chancel are additions of c1860. Four-light chancel east window in Decorated style. Single-storey polygonal vestry added 1893 by Lloyd Oswell. Two- and three-light Decorated windows to north aisle, and four-light west window.
INTERIOR: nave arcade of four and a half bays, possibly C14, but restored. Cylindrical shafts carrying chamfered and roll-moulded arches with foliate respond to the east. Heavy timber roof structure, possibly C15, with curved principals and collar over tie beam. C19 chancel arch with marble shafts with stiff leaf capitals springing high from corbels. Keeled panelled chancel ceiling. North aisle largely c1860, with wide arch to eastern chapel, a C15 arch partially concealed behind a later one leading to chancel.
FITTINGS: C12 font, with chevron base and primitive figures in an arcade round the basin. Other fittings largely date from restoration.
STAINED GLASS by Kempe in west window, and chancel east and south windows. East window dated 1902, south window of 1931. West window of aisle has stained glass by David Evans. Flemish glass resited in north aisle chapel window.
The church was established as a leprosy hospital chapel c1154-62, and incorporates the remains of this original building.
Listing NGR: SJ5072911845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458397
- 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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