Church of Immanuel is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Parish church.
Church of Immanuel
- WRENN ID
- eastward-slate-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of Immanuel, Prees
- OS grid reference
- SJ 589 327
- Coordinates
- 52.89021, -2.61101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Immanuel is a parish church built in 1856 by Benjamin Ferrey, with later additions of transepts. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring bands of blue engineering brick and ashlar dressings. The roof is made of machine tiles with fishscale patterns and has coped verges supported by carved stone kneelers. The church has a dentilled eaves cornice, which is supported by a brick corbel table, and there is an ornamental brick band at the cill level around the main body of the church and the transepts.
The nave and chancel are combined, and there was originally a belfry with a shingle spirelet at the junction. The church has later north and south transepts, which serve as an organ chamber and vestry, respectively, along with a south porch. On the south side of the nave, there are two quatrefoils at different levels to the west of the porch and a paired lancet with a roundel above to the east. The west wall features two lancets and an elaborately cusped rose window, along with a late 20th-century gabled bellcote. The north side has three paired lancets with roundels above, similar to those on the south, with the easternmost being cut by the transept.
The chancel contains two trefoil-headed lancets with cusped trefoils above on the north side and an elaborately cusped east window made up of three lancets. The porch has a triple-chamfered doorway, while the north transept, built in 1898, and the south transept, built around 1904, are designed in a style consistent with the rest of the church. The foundation stone for the north transept was laid by Isabella, Viscountess Hill, on April 30th, 1898.
Inside, the church features an arch-braced roof with six bays, where the bracing for the former spirelet is still visible at the junction between the nave and chancel. The interior includes mid- to late 19th-century fittings and furnishings, with notable original features such as an octagonal font adorned with religious monograms and a Greek palindrome, as well as a stone pulpit with intricate foliage carvings. There is also an elaborately carved organ from 1898 and a west gallery.
Local climate
Church of Immanuel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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