Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SE COLEHAM HEAD 653-1/16/210 (East side) United Reformed Church

GV II

Congregational church, now United Reformed church. Dated 1863. By G Bidlake of Wolverhampton. Rusticated white stone with white ashlar and red sandstone bands. Welsh slate roof. PLAN: south-west tower and spire, nave and vestigial chancel. EXTERIOR: high 2-stage tower, with short angle buttresses and triple foiled lancet window over in high lower stage. Second stage partly ashlar faced, with paired bell-chamber lights with banded shafts. Brooch spire with lucarnes, finial and weather cock. Deep moulding to stilted arched doorway projecting in a steep vestigial gable in buttressed west wall of nave. 5-light Decorated-style window over with simple foiled circles. Nave of 5 bays with plate traceried windows of 2 lights in lower stage, 3 stepped lights in clerestory. The bays are divided by buttresses. Coped east and west gables. Short chancel with domestic windows in lower stage, plate tracery above, and high lancet window in east wall. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1858-).

Listing NGR: SJ4967112386

External Links

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