Chapel at Shelton Hospital

CHAPEL AT SHELTON HOSPITAL, WELSHPOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255091
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
Chapel at Shelton Hospital
Statutory Address:
CHAPEL AT SHELTON HOSPITAL, WELSHPOOL ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255091
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
Chapel at Shelton Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
CHAPEL AT SHELTON HOSPITAL, WELSHPOOL ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHAPEL AT SHELTON HOSPITAL, WELSHPOOL 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 46089 12972

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE WELSHPOOL ROAD, Shelton 653-1/4/778 (South side (off)) 06/04/93 Chapel at Shelton Hospital

GV II

Chapel. c1854-6. Possibly by Thomas Haycock. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Nave with 2 aisles, chancel. Simple Early English style. Doorways to east and west of north wall, with small shafts to moulded archway. Paired lancet windows between the doorways. Central belfry corbelled out on west wall, which has central buttress flanked by lancet windows. Squared chancel, with triple lancets to east window. INTERIOR: 4-bay arcade, with shallow arches on plain piers. Curved principal roofs, with curved under-principals to collars. Feet of common rafters to nave roof extend below roof-line, therefore open to aisles immediately above the wall plate. Simple chamfered chancel arch. Original, plain chamfered wood furniture and fittings throughout, including pews, pulpit and candelabra torcheres.

Listing NGR: SJ4608912972

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
458395
Legacy System:
LBS

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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