Meole Brace Church of Holy Trinity
MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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:
- MEOLE BRACE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH 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 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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455976
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38066
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/237576
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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