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

• Wikidata Q17542472

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