Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW FISH STREET
653-1/15/293 (East side)
10/01/53 Church of St Julian

GV II*

Parish church, now craft centre. Tower is all that remains of
a medieval foundation, C12 in lower stage, C15 above. The body
of the church 1749-50. By Thomas Farnolls Pritchard.
Embellishments to south wall 1846. Lower tower of coursed and
squared red sandstone, raised in white sandstone. Nave of
brick with stone plinth and dressings, and Welsh slate roof.
Lean-to Tuscan porch added against north and south walls of
tower, which has 3-light Perpendicular window in its upper
stage, and quatrefoil frieze with gargoyles, parapet and
pinnacles. Stone plinth of nave has square windows in incised
architraves, the upper section divided into bays by paired and
single pilasters, each bay with round-arched window with sills
carried on triglyph brackets. Triglyph frieze, parapet with
balustrading and finials. Shallow squared chancel with
Palladian window.
INTERIOR: nave of 5 bays with Tuscan arcade, and similar
chancel arch. Stained glass in east window by David Evans,
1861.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth: 1958-).

Listing NGR: SJ4928012438

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542472

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)