The Old Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. A Georgian Church. 1 related planning application.
The Old Church
- WRENN ID
- swift-balcony-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Old Church, Hopton Cangeford, SY8 2EE
- OS grid reference
- SO 548 803
- Coordinates
- 52.41967, -2.66531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Church is a church that has been converted into pottery studios and a house. It was built in 1766, with a 19th-century addition of an apse. The structure is made of red brick, featuring ashlar window surrounds and string courses on the tower stages. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have ornamental ridge tiles, hipped chancel roofs, and a pyramid roof on the tower. Key architectural elements of the chancel, which has a polygonal apse, the nave, and the west tower are still preserved.
On the exterior, the chancel has opposing round-headed windows, and the adjoining five-sided apse features two similar windows on its canted faces. The nave has three opposing round-headed windows, with the central one infilled with brick. The west door of the tower is framed by a round-headed ashlar surround, and there are segmental arched niches on both the north and south sides. A round-headed window at the first stage of the tower interrupts the string course. The top stage of the tower is adorned with roundels that have ashlar surrounds and an ashlar cornice at the roof. All windows have plain ashlar architraves with raised springing blocks, raised pendant keyblocks, and sills. The square leaded lights feature radial glazing bars in the window heads, except for two in the apse that have later leaded lights.
Inside, there is a plain panelled west gallery and a flat ceiling with a simple cornice. The mid-18th-century pulpit has plain panels, and there are two original box pews on the south side below the pulpit, along with a large squire's box pew on the north side that includes a fireplace. A late 18th-century memorial tablet with an urn commemorates the Hale family.
Local climate
The Old Church receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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