Church Of St Mark

SJ 20 SE 4/60 21.3.68

CHIRBURY C.P. MARTON Church of St. Mark

GV II

Chapel of ease, now parish church. 1855 with later alterations. Regularly coursed limestone and shale rubble.with ashlar dressings, machine tile roofs. Nave with west bellcote, chancel, north porch and south vestry; lancet style. Nave: buttressed in 3 bays with lancets, paired to east and west bays on north and south respectively; west window of paired lancets with quatrefoil above, stone bellcote; west bay on north has gabled timber porch on low stone walls. Short chancel in 2 bays with paired cusped lancets to west bay on north and east window of 3 lancets with cusped quatrefoil above; lean-to vestry on south in angle with nave. Interior: very plain with trussed rafter roofs to nave and chancel, pointed chancel arch. Stained glass in east window, 1903. Marton parish was formed from part of Chirbury in 1859. Included for group value. D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 7 (1905) p.550.

Listing NGR: SJ2887002602