Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. A Medieval Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- floating-steeple-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 5128 3/33
HIGH STREET (south side) Church of St Peter and St Paul
28.08.51
GV II* Circa C14 base of west tower with perpendicular upper stages. Nave built in 1809-13 and chancel of 1886. Ashlar built. Large west tower with diagonal buttresses with set offs, two-light perpendicular bell openings, battlements and crocketed pinnacles. West window blocked and smaller window inserted.
Unusual circa early C14 west doorway with four arches of continuous mouldings with dog-leg bends at the base. Statues in niches on west and east walls of the tower. Wide nave of 1809-13 with slate hipped roof and gothic corbelled eaves. Four nave and south Decorated style windows of 1840. Chancel of 1886 with canted angles and early English east window under a gable. Vestry in angle of tower and nave with gothic ogee arched doorway and cast-iron windows.
INTERIOR: nave is galleried on three sides on iron columns. Vaulted chancel. Wrought-iron and brass pulpit and communion rail dated 1887.
The churchyard contains, south of church, many C18 and early C19 headstones and early/mid C19 tomb chests.
Listing NGR: SJ5123528864
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