SHROPSHIRE
GALLERIES
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| Information on former galleries in Sir Stephen Glynne's Church
Notes for Shropshire |
| Sir
Stephen Glynne made at least 40 visits to Shropshire between 1829 and 1872, and
regarded anything medieval as interesting and anything Georgian as ugly. He
also recorded in other counties and left 106 notebooks with details of over
5,000 churches. Dates relate to the date of his visit(s). |
| Alberbury |
1845 |
The nave is
filled with pues (sic) and in a west gallery is an organ. |
| Baschurch |
1831 |
There is a
small finger organ in a west gallery. |
| Berrington |
1854 |
At the
west end a gallery; ugly pues and pulpit. |
| Bishop's Castle |
1852 |
The whole
church miserably dark and encumbered by pues and galleries. There is a bad
barrel organ. |
| Bridgnorth, St. Leonard |
1832 |
The nave is
very wide but disfigured by horrible pues and galleries. The organ is set in a
gallery between the nave and chancel. |
| Burford |
1846 |
There is a
gallery at the west end with a barrel organ. |
| Cheswardine |
1862 |
High pues and west
gallery which hides the tower arch. |
| Church Stretton |
before 1840 |
In a gallery at the west
end is a good organ. |
| Claverly |
1858 |
The church
was extensively repaired in 1834, when new pues were introduced and a north
gallery and organ. |
| Cleobury Mortimer |
1846 |
There is a
gallery and large organ at the west end. |
| Clun |
1850 |
…much
of frightful pues and galleries on the north and west. In the latter is an
organ. |
| Clunbury |
1871 |
The nave is
pewed and has a west gallery. |
| Condover |
1852 |
There is a
west gallery and an organ. |
| Dudleston |
1850 |
Greatly
enlarged in 1819 - total refitting. The whole is pued…there is also a west
gallery with a barrel organ. |
| Ellesmere |
1830 |
The
interior is disfigured by pews and galleries. |
| Great
Ness |
1862 |
The
nave…is pued and has a west gallery with organ. |
| Habberley |
1862 |
The
gallery was erected in 1575. |
| High
Ercall |
1853 |
West
gallery |
| Highley |
1872 |
The chancel
is encumbered by pews. There is a small organ in a west gallery. |
| Leebotwood |
1857 |
A poor
church, without interesting features and much modernised. The interior has pues
and western gallery. [extant] |
| Llanyblodwel |
1845 |
There is a
very ugly and intrusive gallery in the north aisle. |
| also 1858 |
. . . the
pews are still in a hideous state. |
| Longnor |
1857 |
A large
western gallery. [extant] |
| Loppington |
1851 |
There is a
west gallery and ugly pues. |
| Market Drayton |
1846 |
There are
deep galleries in the aisles of the nave and at the west end, which contains
the organ. Moreover there is what is worse, a huge gallery over the chancel
itself. |
| Melverley |
1852 |
There is a
west gallery which appears nearly coeval. Beneath the pues is no floor, only
bare earth. [extant] |
| Moreton Say |
? |
A modern
brick building with tower and wooden spire rebuilt 1769. [Interior not
mentioned.] |
| Newport |
1830 |
The
interior is injured in appearance by the irregularity and meanness of the
seats. There is an organ in a western gallery. |
| Onibury |
before 1840 |
[No
reference to west gallery, which still exists.] |
| Pontesbury |
1862 |
The nave
and tower were rebuilt in 1829 . . . the nave is pued . . . there is an organ
in the west gallery. |
| Prees |
1831 |
The gallery
at the west end is contrived so that the semicircular sweep in the middle
should cut the arches in the middle of the church. |
| Preston Gubbals |
1864 |
The
interior has ugly pues and a west gallery. |
| Ruyton XI Towns |
1852 |
The nave is
pued; has a west gallery with a fair organ |
| St.
Martin's |
before 1840 |
There is a
barrel organ in a west gallery. [extant] |
| Selattyn |
1845 |
There is a
large deep west gallery and several pews . |
| Shawbury |
1853 |
The
interior is dark and pued and with a western gallery. |
| Sheriffhales |
1855 |
The
interior neat, but pewed, and has a west gallery with an organ. |
| Shrewsbury Abbey |
before 1840 |
A deep
gallery fills the whole area of the tower and contains a fine organ. |
| Upton Magna |
1850 |
There is a
picturesque dormer window in the roof, lighting the gallery on the south side,
perhaps coeval with it, and which though unecclesiastical is good of its kind .
. . The gallery is also good of its kind, with balusters and arabesque carving,
and the following inscription; - |
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This gallery was erected after the charge
of Rowl. Jewkes Senior of the Inner Temple Esqr. And of Rowl. Jewkes Sonn of
Thos. Jewkes of this parish. T.W. T.T. Wardens 1666 |
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A barrel
organ is in the gallery. |
| Wistanstow |
1851 |
In the
north transept is a gallery; another at the west end, with a little grinding
organ. The church is pued… |
| Wrockwardine |
1850 |
There is an
organ in the west gallery. The pues very high but the tout ensemble of the
interior is neat. |
Thanks to Linda
Hall for this research.
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