Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CASTLE STREET
653-1/11/175 (South East side)
Former Church of St Nicholas

GV II

Former church, now converted to offices. c1850. By RC Bennett
of Weymouth. Coursed and squared limestone, with plain tiled
roofs.
PLAN: Romanesque style with high and short nave, with lean-to
aisles, and vestigial apse.
EXTERIOR: high west gable, with deep moulding to round-arched
doorway with triple shafts and foliate and trumpet capitals.
Lean-to aisle to right with side door and round-arched window
in west end. Circular stair turret to left, with narrow stair
windows. Curved corner to north aisle, with doorway recessed
across angle, with engaged shafts with foliate capitals. 4-bay
aisle divided by a central buttress. Simple round-arched
windows, and circular windows in short clerestory above.
A well-articulated example, in the neo-Norman style, which
makes an important contribution to the streetscape.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth: 1858-).

Listing NGR: SJ4941012747

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561106

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)