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Churches which still retain west gallery
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Benthall,
St
Bartholomew |
127:SJ658025
Church built 1667. The gallery stair was moved in
1893 to new western apse. Box-pews. # |
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Berwick Chapel, Dedication unknown |
Church built 1672; it has a west gallery, and
box-pews. # |
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Buildwas, Dedication not known
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Nave built 1720. The church has a west gallery
supported on two posts, with twisted balusters. |
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Eyton-upon-the-Weald-Moors, Dedication not
known |
The church was built in 1743, and contains a west
gallery. No other details known. # |
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Great Bolas, Dedication not known
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Church and fittings date from 1726-9, including a
west gallery. No other details known. |
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Halston Chapel
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This is a timber-framed private
chapel, belonging to the owners of Halston. The interior is one of the most
interesting in the county. It is fully panelled and retains other original
fittings of the mid 16th C., but there is no evidence to show whether the
building was put up shortly before the Dissolution by the Knights of St John of
Jerusalem. or, soon after, by the Mytton family (the Jack Mytton portrayed by
Nimrod was Squire of Halston).
On both sides of the small recess which
contains the altar are large square pews in one of which a pulpit was erected
in 1725 without destroying the pew. (John Betjeman and
Robert Wakeford in CEPC, 1958)
There is a west gallery with
Georgian Royal Arms and panelled front. |
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Heath Chapel,
a chapel of ease with no known dedication
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SO556857.
Up in the hills
near Bouldon, the building is principally Norman, wand
contains/contained(?) box-pews, two-decker pulpit and altar rails on three
sides. This
small Norman Church is all that remains of a
deserted medieval village, the earthworks of which lie to the
north of the chapel.
See
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346924
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Hope Bagot, dedication not known
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The west gallery is dated 1726. |
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Hopton Cangeford, dedication unknown
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An 18th C. church with clear glass, an apse,
brick floors and a manor pew. |
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Langley Chapel, dedication unknown |
Beautiful and remote, set beside the gateway of
Langney Manor House, south of Acton Burnell. 17th C. stone-built bell tower.
Inside untouched. Old floors, stone for nave, brick for chancel. Plastered
walls; benches with turned knobs and doors; carved and canopied desk for daily
offices facing nave. Table away from east end with kneelers around it. (John Betjeman and Robert Wakeford in CEPC, 1958) |
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*Leebotwood, St Mary the Virgin
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West gallery carried on ovolo-moulded beam (17th
C.); balustrade of stick balusters matches three-sided altar rail and probably
dates from 1829 alterations. # |
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*Longnor, St Mary the Virgin
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Late 13th C. stone church [no tower] in
tree-shaded vicinity to brick-built 17th C. Longnor Hall. Entirely unrestored
by the Victorians. Outside stairway to west gallery [at south-west end of
nave]. Gothick east iron window tracery; original clear glass. Inside,
box-pews, galleries, hatchments, reading-desk and pulpit, old floors, plastered
walls. (John Betjeman and Robert Wakeford in CEPC,
1958)
Box pews dated 1723. 18th C. west gallery with wavy
splat balusters, possibly of the same date. (No ref. in
Pevsner.) |
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Lydbury North, St Michael |
Well restored in 1901 . . when the fine 15th C.
nave roof was revealed. Cruciform on plan and Norman of two periods with 14th
C. north transept and 17th C. south transept. Delightful texture within and
without. Rood-screen with plastered tympanum above on which are inscribed the
Commandments, great array of 17th C. box-pews, Norman font with 17th C. cover,
stone altar in north transept and late 17th C. altar rails. (John Betjeman and Robert Wakeford in CEPC, 1958) |
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Madeley, All
Saints |
The church has a 17th C. west
gallery. |
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*Melverley, St Peter |
A timber-framed church from about the 15th C., a
mass of supporting timbers internally. Inside, a frame of the building divides
chancel from nave, another frame makes a west division, with gallery over and
vestry and lobby beneath. (John Betjeman and Robert Wakeford
in CEPC, 1958)
The west gallery is balustraded, and may date
from 1588 (Randall); date on panelling below
gallery. # |
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Mindtown, Dedication not known
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17th. C. west gallery, other details not known .
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Minsterley Church, Dedication not
known |
Church dates from 1689-90, constructed of brick
and stone. The west gallery may be contemporary ? There is also a domed tester
over the pulpit. |
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Moreton Say, Dedication not known
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1788 church encased in brick. 1634 west gallery
("one of the finest in Shropshire") with stair and organ. Painted floral
designs possibly later (Cox and Harvey). |
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Onibury,
St Michael
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An aisleless Norman church with stone tower and
pebble-dashed nave and chancel. Sensitively restored 1902. Rough hewn oak west
gallery with square front and Edward VII carved arms; rough hewn oak pews with
oak posts supporting iron lanterns for electric light. plaster walls with
hat-pegs; 1902 Commandment boards; red hangings; box-pews at west end. A loving
recapturing of village simplicity. (John Betjeman and Robert
Wakeford in CEPC, 1958)
1902 lattice front to gallery; 17th
C. panelling at rear. # |
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Pitchford, St Michael
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Set beside the half-timbered manor hall in a
yew-treed churchyard. The church is of pink sandstone, mediaeval and little
restored. Inside are 17th C. box-pews, pulpit and communion rails. Wooden
effigy of knight in chain-mail, ca. 1230; . . . hatchments.
(John Betjeman and Robert Wakeford in CEPC, 1958) |
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*Quatt, St Andrew
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Church rebuilt 1763 with brick tower and nave;
west gallery and organ date from 1950s. |
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St Martin's,
St Martin |
Mainly 13th C., but the furnishings are its chief
claim to distinction. A inscription over the door records the building of the
vestry in 1810. These box-pews (sic) some oak and some deal remain; the
double-decker pulpit is hung with Georgian velvet. West gallery, Royal Arms,
turned rails round three sides of altar. . . (John Betjeman
and Robert Wakeford in CEPC, 1958) |
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Shrewsbury, St Chads
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Built
1790-92, G Stewart architect. Circular nave; oval entrance; galleried; wide amphitheatre; very long
Ionic & Corinthian columns supporting roof, and much use of iron
within the columns similar to the construction of Tetbury church;
circular & square tower; Venetian style East window.
Box-pews. (E1000BC and EPC.)
(details: Phillip Shepherd)
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Stokesay,
St John the Baptist
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The churchyard borders the moat of
Stokesay Castle, a fortified manor house with 17th C. additions. The church, damaged in
Civil Wars, was largely rebuilt and refurbished afterwards. Many of the 17th C.
furnishings remain, including pews, one canopied and of two storeys,
wall texts and a two-decker (originally three-) pulpit. (John Betjeman and Robert Wakeford in CEPC,
1958)
The Georgian west gallery was used by musicians until
ca. 1855. Band comprised bass viol, flute and
clarinet. # |
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Tugford, St Catherine |
A Village church, with textured exterior. The
west gallery said to be partly made from former a screen. |
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Whitchurch, St Alkmund |
Built 1712-13 after the old church fell down. It
has a red sandstone tower. Inside it has been drastically restored and most of
the original clear-glassed round-headed windows are filled with coloured glass.
Some good woodwork remains, although pews and pulpit have been cut down and
organ moved. Fine Tuscan arcades to the nave. (John Betjeman
and Robert Wakeford in CEPC, 1958)
West gallery and fine
stair.
Wooden galleries. (Pevsner) |
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Churches which are known to have had west
gallery features or connections |
| See also Glynne's 19th-century notes
on his visits to Shropshire churches |
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Hilderstone,
Christ
Church
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Built with the aid of funds made
available under the Church Building Acts, the first of which was
in 1818. Churches built with the assistance of those funds are
known as "Commissioners churches", or "Waterloo
churches", since the Church Building Act 1818 was passed in
part to commemorate the success in the Battle of Waterloo.
Christ Church,
Hilderstone
is very much as
Thomas Trubshaw designed it. There have been only minor changes to the
furnishings.
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