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Latitude: 52.3857 / 52°23'8"N
Longitude: -2.5343 / 2°32'3"W
OS Eastings: 363734
OS Northings: 276544
OS Grid: SO637765
Mapcode National: GBR BT.QW7Y
Mapcode Global: VH847.192G
Plus Code: 9C4V9FP8+77
Entry Name: Church of St Michael
Listing Date: 12 November 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1383537
English Heritage Legacy ID: 483968
ID on this website: 101383537
Location: St Michael and All Angels Church, Hopton Wafers, Shropshire, DY14
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Hopton Wafers
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Hopton Wafers
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Church building
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HOPTON WAFERS
Church of St Michael
12/11/54
GV
II*
Church. 1827, restored 1892. Built for Thomas Botfield. Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar plinth. Slate roof with projecting eaves and verge supported on ornamental eaves corbels.
PLAN: nave incorporating chancel, south porch, west tower.
EXTERIOR: nave east window and four opposing side windows all in arched C19 Gothic-style, with mullions and simple foiled tracery. One south window covered by south porch with arched entrance opening and semi-castellated parapet.
Tower: Romanesque-style round-headed windows with simple ornament at upper and lower stages. String courses. Roundel in middle stage to south. Parapet with pointed crenellation and corner pinnacles, over weathered string course.
INTERIOR: late C19 four-bay hammerbeam roof and chancel screen. West gallery with cast-iron embellishment. C12 font. Wall monument to Thomas Botfield d.1843 by EH Baily: large relief of reclining and kneeling figures. Other Classical wall monuments to John Hale d.1779; James Stanton and Ann his wife d.1817 by T Hare; Mrs Mary Hyde d.1778. West tower has fragment of C15 glass depicting angel.
Listing NGR: SO6373476544
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