Church of St Chad is a Grade II* listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Chad

WRENN ID
burning-tallow-crimson
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Telford and Wrekin
Constituency
The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1959
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Chad, Kynnersley
OS grid reference
SJ 672 167
Coordinates
52.74697, -2.48627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Chad is a small sandstone church located in Kynnersley. The medieval nave features 19th-century restored two and three-light windows with plate tracery, along with one straight-headed window on the north side. At the east end of the nave, there is a gabled double bellcote. The south doorway has a pointed chamfered arch. The medieval chancel includes early 14th-century windows; the east window has three lights with reticulated tracery, and there are two-light lancet windows on the north and south sides. A late 19th-century timber-framed gabled south porch is present.

The west tower, built between 1722 and 1723, consists of two stages, featuring a covered cornice beneath the parapet and obelisk pinnacles at the corners. It has round-arched bell openings, a west window, and a south doorway. Inside, the chancel arch is double-chamfered and supported on short shafts with corbels. The nave roof has moulded tie beams, though it appears to have been replaced above that. The chancel roof features moulded collars, arched braces, and queen struts. There is a simple ogee-arched piscina in the south wall of the chancel. The font has a rough round bowl on a Victorian stem, and the church contains Victorian furnishings.

In the churchyard, there are some early 19th-century and later railed tomb chests, as well as 18th-century headstones and a table tomb located to the south of the church.

Local climate

Church of St Chad receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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