The Old Church

HOPTON CANGEFORD

SO58SW The Old Church 482-1/2/149 12/11/54 (Formerly Listed as: Parish Church)

II*

Church, now pottery studios and house. 1766 with C19 apse addition. Red brick with ashlar window surrounds and string courses to tower stages. Plain-tile roofs with ornamental ridge tiles, hipped chancel roofs and pyramid tower roof. Former elements of chancel with polygonal apse, nave and west tower are still intact. EXTERIOR: chancel with opposing round-headed windows, and adjoining 5-sided apse with 2 similar windows in canted faces. Nave: 3 opposing round-headed windows, the central window infilled with brick. West door of tower with round-headed ashlar surround. Segmental arched niches on north and south sides. Round-headed window at first tower stage interrupting string course. Roundels with ashlar surrounds to 3 sides of tower top stage and ashlar cornice to roof. All windows with plain ashlar architraves with raised springing block, raised pendant keyblock, and sill. Square leaded lights with radial glazing bars in window-heads except for 2 with later leaded lights in apse. INTERIOR: plain panelled west gallery. Flat ceiling with simple cornice. Mid C18 pulpit with plain panels. 2 original box pews on south side below pulpit, one large squire's box pew on north side with a fireplace. Late C18 memorial tablet with urn, commemorating Hale family. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth, Middlesex: 1958-: 153).

Listing NGR: SO5485080393