Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. A Victorian Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
rooted-terrace-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1968
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of All Saints, Worthen with Shelve
OS grid reference
SO 336 990
Coordinates
52.58506, -2.98087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church built in 1839, replacing a medieval structure. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a machine tile roof and coped verges. The church consists of a nave and chancel combined, along with a thin west tower designed in a lancet style.

The tower is unbuttressed and has three stages, with a plain corbel table above the belfry and a coped parapet. It includes three segmental-headed openings with voussoirs at the belfry level and a similar window with thin Y-tracery on the west side of the second stage. The west doorway is segmental-headed, also with voussoirs and a projecting keystone. The south wall of the nave has three windows, while the north wall has two windows, which feature rubble voussoirs instead of ashlar surrounds. All these windows are broad lancets without hoodmoulds. The flat-headed east window contains three cusped lights.

Inside, the church is plain and simple, with most fittings and furnishings dating from the late 19th century. The pulpit, reading desk, and panelling at the east end are made from 17th-century pews from the former church. The plaster ceiling dates to around 1839, but the cambered tie beam above the altar rail is from the previous church. A crudely carved font is believed to be 13th century, and fragments of partly medieval painted glass around the borders of the nave window are said to have been brought from another church.

Local climate

Church of All Saints receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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