Parish Church
PARISH CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383759
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383759
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH
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:
- PARISH CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheathill
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 61567 82990
Details
WHEATHILL
SO68SW LOUGHTON
482-1/4/201 Parish Church
12/11/54
GV II
Church. Dated 1622, restored 1904. Church replaces chapel of
pre-1291. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings, coursed stone
rubble to additions. Plain-tile roofs with projecting verge.
PLAN: chancel with north vestry, nave with integral bellcote,
and south porch.
EXTERIOR: chancel east window of twin segmental-headed lights
with 3-lobed inset in spandrel. Restored scissor truss exposed
under gable bargeboards. Blocked south doorway with flat stone
slab lintel. Early C20 projecting tiled gabled vestry
extension partly masks north wall. Nave with pair of opposing
lattice-leaded 2-light segmental-headed windows, that to the
north restored, that to the south with dated inscription over.
South doorway with round-headed arch with ovolo-moulded
chamfer. Early C20 south porch with tiled gabled roof and
arched stone opening. West window is early C20 lancet.
Bellcote over west gable with single bell set in round-arched
opening below coped ashlar canopy roof.
INTERIOR: single-bay chancel roof with restored scissor and
collar truss. Pointed chancel arch in Early English style with
string course with chamfer forming abacus, reputed to
incorporate C12 material. Restored 3-bay single purlin nave
roof with queen-post trusses. Inscription over south window
reads: THIS CHURCH WAS BUILTE BY THE RIGHT WORTH. BONHAM
NORTON ESQ AN DOM 1622.
Church is of special interest for date of construction.
Listing NGR: SO6156782990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484191
- 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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