Chapel at Shelton Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1993. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Chapel at Shelton Hospital
- WRENN ID
- sacred-transept-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1993
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Shelton Hospital, Welshpool Road, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 460 129
- Coordinates
- 52.71173, -2.79943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel at Shelton Hospital, built between 1854 and 1856, is a Grade II listed building possibly designed by Thomas Haycock. Constructed from brick with stone dressings and topped with a Welsh slate roof, the chapel features a nave with two aisles and a chancel, all in a simple Early English style. There are doorways on the east and west sides of the north wall, each with small shafts leading to a moulded archway. Paired lancet windows are positioned between the doorways. The west wall has a central belfry that is corbelled out, flanked by a central buttress and lancet windows. The chancel is squared and has a triple lancet window on the east side.
Inside, the chapel has a four-bay arcade with shallow arches supported by plain piers. The principal roofs are curved, with curved under-principals leading to collars. The feet of the common rafters in the nave roof extend below the roof line, creating an open space above the aisles immediately above the wall plate. The chancel arch is simply chamfered. The interior retains original plain chamfered wood furniture and fittings, including pews, a pulpit, and candelabra torcheres.
Local climate
Chapel at Shelton Hospital receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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