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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.
Before and after the Domesday Survey Shipton belonged to St Milburh's Church, Much Wenlock. It remained a possession of the priory until 1540. A church is mentioned at Shipton c. 1110 (VCH).
The openings to either side of the chancel arch are later.
F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications, Vol. 3, London 1899, 253.
D. H. S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, Vol. 1, Part 3, Hobson and Company 1897, 208-11.
R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. 4, London 1860, 303-06.
J. Newman and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Shropshire, New Haven and London 2006, 508.
Victoria County History: A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10, Munslow Hundred (Part), the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock, C R J Currie (ed.), London 1998, 368-80.
