Description

KENLEY C.P. KENLEY
SJ 50 SE
4/66 Church of St. John
13.6.58 the Baptist
GV II*

Parish church. C12 and C14, restored c. 1854. Roughly coursed gritstone
rubble, machine tile roofs. Nave and chancel in one, west tower and south
porch. Tower: probably C12; squat in 2 stages with later pyramidal roof;
rectangular chamfered openings to second stage on north, south and west
and plain rectangular openings to bottom stage on south and west. Long
nave and chancel in one; 3 mid-C19 windows with Y-tracery on south and
2 on north, all in slight recesses; north wall also has square-headed
blocked doorway to chancel and an infilled round-arched doorway (probably
C12), cut by western of two C19 windows; small blocked rectangular window
to chancel on south; C14 east window of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil
and mouchettes above; gabled south porch with round-arched doorway probably
C17. Interior: round-arched single-chamfered south doorway has nail-
studded plank and muntin door (probably C17); narrow doorway to tower
is pointed on east with 2 chamfered orders ending in small broaches and
square-headed on west (door with long strap hinges); main feature is late
C14 arch-braced collar beam roof, the 3 eastern trusses (to chancel)
with cusped struts from collars forming quatrefoils, double purlins and
cusped windbraces; the 2 eastern trusses to nave are boxed in (without
struts to collars) and the western truss consists of a tie beam with
raking struts supporting principal rafter; fine carved C17 pulpit has
tester with pendant knobs, reading desk below made up of contemporary
panels; hexagonal font 1875. No monumentsof note. The church is said
to have been a dependent chapelry of Cound (q.v. under Church of St. Peter,
Cound C.P.) in the medieval period and is stituated in an originally
oval-shaped churchyard (q.v. under churchyard wall), suggestive of an
early origin. B.O.E. p.159; D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire,
Part 6 (1903) pp. 493-4; The Post Office Directory of Shropshire (1879)
(ed. E. R. Kelly) p.336.

Listing NGR: SJ5627900795

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540200

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990