Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SE COLEHAM HEAD
653-1/16/210 (East side)
United Reformed Church

GV II

Congregational church, now United Reformed church. Dated 1863.
By G Bidlake of Wolverhampton. Rusticated white stone with
white ashlar and red sandstone bands. Welsh slate roof. PLAN:
south-west tower and spire, nave and vestigial chancel.
EXTERIOR: high 2-stage tower, with short angle buttresses and
triple foiled lancet window over in high lower stage. Second
stage partly ashlar faced, with paired bell-chamber lights
with banded shafts. Brooch spire with lucarnes, finial and
weather cock. Deep moulding to stilted arched doorway
projecting in a steep vestigial gable in buttressed west wall
of nave. 5-light Decorated-style window over with simple
foiled circles. Nave of 5 bays with plate traceried windows of
2 lights in lower stage, 3 stepped lights in clerestory. The
bays are divided by buttresses. Coped east and west gables.
Short chancel with domestic windows in lower stage, plate
tracery above, and high lancet window in east wall.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth: 1858-).

Listing NGR: SJ4967112386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539376

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)