The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Andrew and St Mary (now)
Parish church
The village is located 4 miles S of Shrewsbury, the nearest large town, with the church sited at the southern end of the village, alongside Condover Hall, described as the grandest Elizabethan house in Shropshire (Newman). The church too is spectacularly big, built of pinkish sandstone with timber framing in the S transept gable. The earlist part is the N transept, which is late-12thc and built on the same grand scale as the later building. This has a broad aisleless nave of 1662-64, a W tower of 1677-78, and a chancel with a N aisle both built in 1868. The S transept dates from c.1600-07 ans so must have been built to match its norethern counterpart. Features described here are the N transept windows and corbel tables, and a plain E doorway.