Church Of Immanuel

PREES C.P. FAULSGREEN SJ 53 SE 7/71 Church of Immanuel - - II Parish church. 1856 by Benjamin Ferrey with later transepts. Red brick (English bond) with bands of blue engineering brick and ashlar dressings; machine tile roofs with fishscale bands and coped verges on carved stone kneelers. Dentilled eaves cornice supported by brick corbel table with ornamental brick band at cill level all around main body of church; similar band to transepts. Nave and chancel in one, formerly with belfry and shingle spirelet at junction; later north and south transepts (organ chamber and vestry respectively); south porch. Nave: south side has 2 quatrefoils at different levels to west of porch and a paired lancet with roundel above to east; west wall has 2 lancets with elaborately cusped rose window and a late C20 gabled bellcote; north side has 3 paired lancets with roundels above, identical to that on south, easternmost cut by transept. Chancel: 2 trefoil-headed lancets with cusped trefoils above on north and an elaborately cusped east window of 3 lancets. Porch with triple-chamfered doorway, north transept (1898) and south transept (c.1904) in similar style to rest of church. North transept has foundation stone laid by Isabella, Viscountess Hill, April 30th, 1898. Interior: arch-braced roof in 6 bays with bracing for former spirelet still visible at junction between nave and chancel. Mid- to late C19 fittings and furnishings; octagonal font with religious monograms and a Greek palindrome and the stone pulpit with elaborately carved foliage decoration being the most notable original features. Elaborately carved organ of 1898; west gallery. B.O.E. p.130; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 8 (1906) p.689.

Listing NGR: SJ5898732702