Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, WELSHPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379823
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, WELSHPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379823
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 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.
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 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 45919 13227
Details
SJ 41 SE SHREWSBURY WELSHPOOL ROAD
653-1/4/10015 Christ Church
II
Parish church. 1854, by Edward Haycock Snr. Random rubble with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs. Early English style. Plinth, coped gables with crosses. Windows are mainly plain lancets.
Chancel, organ chamber, vestry, nave with bellcote, south porch.
Chancel, 2 bays, has sill band and diagonal buttresses. East end has 3 lancets, south side 2, north side one, all with hood moulds.
Gabled organ chamber, to south, has sill band and corner buttresses. South gable has 2 lancets and above, a cusped roundel. To east, a pointed arched doorway. All openings have hood moulds.
Vestry has prominent stack to north gable and inserted flat headed door. 2-light shouldered window to east.
Nave, 4 bays, has diagonal buttresses to west gable and single buttresses to north and south. Lancet in north gable. West gable has central buttress flanked by single lancets with sill band and hood mould. Above, vescia piscis containing figure, and above this, a clock, 1923. Shouldered, gabled bellcote with cusped single arched opening and cross. North and south sides have to east a double lancet with simple tracery. North side has 3 lancets, south side two.
Gabled south porch has cusped fillet-moulded doorway with hood mould, and trefoil openings on each side.
INTERIOR: Rendered. Chancel has double chamfered arch with imposts on corbels, and hood mould with mask stops. Scissor braced roof with ashlar pieces. North side has pointed arched doorway and plain window on sill band. East end has stained glass window, 1884. Elaborate ashlar reredos with marble shafts, pinnacles and cusped inlaid panels, begun 1886, completed 1904. South side has 2 plain windows on sill band, and single sedilia. Cove moulded pointed arched opening to organ chamber, which has patterned stained glass windows and late C20 organ case in C15 style.
Nave has arch braced roof on corbels, with additional arch braces above the collar. Eastern windows have stained glass 1948 by Hardman and 1967 by G Maill. Half-octagonal ashlar pulpit with pelican motif and stiff-leaf bracket. South side has chamfered segmental pointed doorway. West end has clock case and mechanism, 1923, and plain windows. West gallery removed and organ re-sited late C20.
Fittings include original octagonal ashlar font with coved and fluted base and stiff-leaf ornament, brass lectern with conical base, dated 1890, clergy desk, 1893, and wooden altar rail, 1947. Original plain benches, 2 with doors.
Memorials include marble and brass war memorial tablet, 1901, and slate tablet and roll of honour, c1920.
Listing NGR: SJ4591913227
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/237588
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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