Church of St Edward is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Church.
Church of St Edward
- WRENN ID
- broken-spindle-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Edward, Condover
- OS grid reference
- SJ 476 029
- Coordinates
- 52.62162, -2.77475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Edward is a parish church built in 1845 by Edward Haycock, as indicated by the datestone on the west tower. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with machine tile roofs featuring moulded eaves cornices and coped verges. The church comprises a nave, chancel, a west tower with a spire, and north and south transepts, along with north and south vestries.
The tower is narrow and consists of four stages, topped with an openwork parapet and crocketed corner pinnacles above a corbel table, and features a short octagonal stone spire. The windows throughout are broad lancets with hoodmoulds, with single windows in the third and fourth stages and paired windows in the second stage. The pointed double-chamfered west door has carved heads as label stops.
The nave is broad and spans five bays, with short gabled transepts projecting from the fourth bay. All windows in the nave are broad lancets linked by a continuous hoodmould. The chancel is short and has gabled vestries on the north and south sides, connected to the transepts by short passageways. The east window is in a plain Gothic style with three lights and carved heads as label stops.
Inside, the church has a plain mid-19th century appearance, featuring a hammerbeam roof in the nave with five bays and a two-bay arch-braced roof in the chancel. There is a narrow pointed tower arch behind the west gallery and a broader chancel arch on corbelled responds. Most fittings and furnishings date from the mid-19th century or later, including a small octagonal mid-19th century font in the south transept and late 19th century stained glass in the east window, transepts, and the third window from the west on the south side of the nave. The sanctuary has a part mosaic floor, and two 18th century hatchments hang on the north and south walls of the nave.
A wall memorial to the church's founder, John Thomas Hope, who died in 1854, is located on the south side of the nave. The parish of Dorrington was established from part of Condover in the mid-19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Edward receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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