MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1271121
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
List Entry Name:: MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1271121
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
List Entry Name:: MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 48620 10555

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE CHURCH ROAD, Meole Brace 653-1/4/757 Church of Holy Trinity 30/05/69

GV II*

Parish church. 1867-8. E Haycock Junior. Rusticated red sandstone with paler stone dressings and some ashlar bands, plain tiled roof with ridge cresting. PLAN: west tower clasped by nave and lean-to aisles, chancel. EXTERIOR: west tower of 4 stages with angle buttresses. Paired shouldered square-headed lights in second stage, with clock above, and paired lights to bell-chamber in hollow chamfered banded arch. Quatrefoil frieze and corbel table. Embattled parapet and short spire with weather vane. South aisle of 4 bays divided by buttresses, with coped gabled porch with short angle buttresses and foiled archway. Trefoil frieze above. 3-light Decorated windows. Gabled chapel projects, with 2 foiled lancet windows and a rose window over. Chancel with apsidal east end with 3-light Decorated windows in each face. It is distinguished by moulded eaves cornice, and separated from nave by a coped gable, although roof line continues at same level throughout. Lean-to north aisle of 4 bays with Decorated windows. Gabled vestry projects from aisle. INTERIOR: nave arcade of 5 bays, cylindrical shafts with alternately foliate and ring moulded capitals, and red and white banded voussoirs. Cross braced roof trusses carried on corbels. Chancel arch with paired banded shafts with rich foliate capitals. In the chancel, arches lead off each side to side chapels. Ornate roof truss with cross-bracing and curved struts each side of King post. Marble low relief reredos, and quatrefoil wood frieze at wall plate. Oak pews and pulpit possibly original. Octagonal font with alternate panels of marble inlay and raised foliate decoration. War memorial under the west window with high relief figures of a soldier and an angel kneeling each side of a name plate beneath a canopy. STAINED GLASS: noted for its complete series of stained-glass windows by Morris and Company. In the chancel, the windows are dated 1870, and are in a medieval narrative style, depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments each side of the Crucifixion with angels, saints and prophets. South side chapel windows dated 1894 by Kempe, with full-height figures depicting the Annunciation. South aisle windows dated 1899, Morris and Co., with full-height figures of prophets, saints and virtues on a pale ground. North aisle windows continue this series and are dated 1903 and 1916. One north window is earlier, dated 1887. It depicts Martha and Mary and is in a different style, with the two figures against a dark ground of drapes and vine leaves. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1858-).

Listing NGR: SJ4862010555

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 455976
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/237576
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38066

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.