The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
not confirmed (medieval)
Parish church
The town of Shifnal lies 3 miles E of Telford. The church, built of red sandstone, is on the SW side of the town. The nave of the church was substantially rebuilt during the restorations of 1876-79, when the aisles may have been added; the 13thc S porch remains. The crossing tower is of c.1300. The chancel has 14thc additions to the E and S and an additional c.1300 chancel arch.
Romanesque elements date from the late 12thc and include parts of the chancel: two 12thc windows in the N wall with decoration both on the interior and exterior; a chancel arch with sculptural decoration behind the later one. The S transept is also substantially 12thc with sculptural decoration on the S transept arch leading into the S chancel chapel, on the 12thc window on the W wall, now the E end of the S aisle, as well as remains of the doorway on the S wall of the S transept.
Parish church
The church consists of a 12thc. nave and chancel and a 15thc. W tower with a Victorian timber top incorporating a pyramidal tiled roof. Surviving 12thc. features include two plain, round-headed lancets in the chancel (N and S walls) and one in the nave (N wall) as well as traces of what was originally a group of three round-headed windows in the E wall of the chancel. Only the outer jambs of this group is still discernable owing to the insertion of a larger, later window. There are also blocked doorways in the N and S walls of the nave. The jambs and arch of the original S doorway now form the W doorway to the tower. The font is also of the 12thc.
Parish church
Nave with S aisle rebuilt in brick, rendered chancel and ashlar and flint W tower. Brick boiler house added
to S nave aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in the early
17thc. after a fire, and again in 1777, and there was a restoration in 1870.
Features described are the N nave doorway and the chancel arch.
Parish church
Shipton is a small rural parish in Corve Dale, approximately 6 miles SW of Much Wenlock. St James is a single-aisled church with a 16thc chancel (dated 1589), a 12thc nave, a late-16thc S porch, and a low tower with a timber-framed bell stage. The chancel arch and the font are of the 12thc.
Parish church
A small church with chancel, nave, N and S aisles, a small sacristy entered from N aisle, W tower with spire and N, S and W doorways. The N arcade is 12thc. and a plain font may also date from this period. The Church is built of local liassic ironstone, probably from Hornton quarries nearby.
Parish church
A cruciform church with an aisled nave and a W tower with chapels to N
and S (i.e. a species of W transept). Most of this, that is to say the lower
stage of the tower with the W doorway and the N, S and E arches inside, the N
nave arcade, the clerestorey
with circular windows with plate-tracery quatrefoils,
the S nave doorway and the N transept must date from the early 13thc. The S
nave arcade, however, is older in conception and is
described below. The S transept is in fact a later chapel, and looks 14thc.,
the same date as the upper storeys of the tower. The aisleless chancel is presumably c.1200 but its windows are later and the
chancel arch is 19thc. Construction is all of pebble
rubble with ashlar dressings, and the tower has a crumpled spire.
Parish church
The church is largely of the 14thc., and has an aisled nave of four
bays with quatrefoil
clerestory windows over the piers. The S aisle is
original, the N was rebuilt in 1891-92 by W. M. Fawcett, who had restored the
church in 1876–77. The chancel is aisleless, its
E window (and probably the entire E wall) being 19thc. There is a W tower which
is mortar-rendered, but otherwise construction is of mixed pebble and stone
rubble with ashlar buttresses, except for the chancel E
wall which is of ashlar with brick repairs. Johnson reported a loose 12thc.
stone in the church, but this was not found.
Parish church
St Peter's is substantially a 12thc. church of nave, chancel and W tower. Aisles were added to the nave in the
14thc. The W tower, with its twin bell openings, angle shafts and tower arch are all recorded here, as is the font.
Construction is of flint and pebble with ashlar dressings and the tower has a
lead spike. There was a restoration by Ewan Christian in 1883.
Parish church
Originally an aisleless church with nave, chancel and central tower, all of c.1300. In the early 14thc. a N aisle and transepts were added. The main entrance is on the N, facing the road, and a Perpendicular porch was added on this side. A vestry to the S of the chancel was added in the 19thc. Construction is of flint and pebble, and the tower has a Hertfordshire spike. The church was restored in 1869-70 and 1956-61. A reset impost and a loose capital (reported but not found) provide evidence earlier than any of the standing fabric.
Parish church
Wide, 13thc. aisled nave of five bays with
Perpendicular clerestorey, N and S transepts, N and
S porches, the former two-storied, aisleless chancel
with N vestry, and W tower with a lead spike. The
overall effect from outside is of a Perpendicular, battlemented church
constructed in russet brown carstone and pebble rubble. The only feature
included here is the font of c1200.