Christ Church

SJ 41 SE SHREWSBURY WELSHPOOL ROAD

653-1/4/10015 Christ Church

II

Parish church. 1854, by Edward Haycock Snr. Random rubble with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs. Early English style. Plinth, coped gables with crosses. Windows are mainly plain lancets. Chancel, organ chamber, vestry, nave with bellcote, south porch. Chancel, 2 bays, has sill band and diagonal buttresses. East end has 3 lancets, south side 2, north side one, all with hood moulds. Gabled organ chamber, to south, has sill band and corner buttresses. South gable has 2 lancets and above, a cusped roundel. To east, a pointed arched doorway. All openings have hood moulds. Vestry has prominent stack to north gable and inserted flat headed door. 2-light shouldered window to east. Nave, 4 bays, has diagonal buttresses to west gable and single buttresses to north and south. Lancet in north gable. West gable has central buttress flanked by single lancets with sill band and hood mould. Above, vescia piscis containing figure, and above this, a clock, 1923. Shouldered, gabled bellcote with cusped single arched opening and cross. North and south sides have to east a double lancet with simple tracery. North side has 3 lancets, south side two. Gabled south porch has cusped fillet-moulded doorway with hood mould, and trefoil openings on each side. INTERIOR: Rendered. Chancel has double chamfered arch with imposts on corbels, and hood mould with mask stops. Scissor braced roof with ashlar pieces. North side has pointed arched doorway and plain window on sill band. East end has stained glass window, 1884. Elaborate ashlar reredos with marble shafts, pinnacles and cusped inlaid panels, begun 1886, completed 1904. South side has 2 plain windows on sill band, and single sedilia. Cove moulded pointed arched opening to organ chamber, which has patterned stained glass windows and late C20 organ case in C15 style. Nave has arch braced roof on corbels, with additional arch braces above the collar. Eastern windows have stained glass 1948 by Hardman and 1967 by G Maill. Half-octagonal ashlar pulpit with pelican motif and stiff-leaf bracket. South side has chamfered segmental pointed doorway. West end has clock case and mechanism, 1923, and plain windows. West gallery removed and organ re-sited late C20. Fittings include original octagonal ashlar font with coved and fluted base and stiff-leaf ornament, brass lectern with conical base, dated 1890, clergy desk, 1893, and wooden altar rail, 1947. Original plain benches, 2 with doors. Memorials include marble and brass war memorial tablet, 1901, and slate tablet and roll of honour, c1920.

Listing NGR: SJ4591913227 This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.