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Latitude: 52.4197 / 52°25'10"N
Longitude: -2.6653 / 2°39'55"W
OS Eastings: 354850
OS Northings: 280393
OS Grid: SO548803
Mapcode National: GBR BN.NLHV
Mapcode Global: VH83Y.RFBY
Plus Code: 9C4VC89M+VV
Entry Name: The Old Church
Listing Date: 12 November 1954
Last Amended: 29 February 2000
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1383734
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484166
ID on this website: 101383734
Location: Hopton Cangeford Church, Hopton Cangeford, Shropshire, SY8
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Hopton Cangeford
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Stoke St Milborough with the Heath
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Church building
HOPTON CANGEFORD
SO58SW The Old Church
482-1/2/149
12/11/54
(Formerly Listed as:
Parish Church)
II*
Church, now pottery studios and house. 1766 with C19 apse
addition. Red brick with ashlar window surrounds and string
courses to tower stages. Plain-tile roofs with ornamental
ridge tiles, hipped chancel roofs and pyramid tower roof.
Former elements of chancel with polygonal apse, nave and west
tower are still intact.
EXTERIOR: chancel with opposing round-headed windows, and
adjoining 5-sided apse with 2 similar windows in canted faces.
Nave: 3 opposing round-headed windows, the central window
infilled with brick. West door of tower with round-headed
ashlar surround. Segmental arched niches on north and south
sides. Round-headed window at first tower stage interrupting
string course. Roundels with ashlar surrounds to 3 sides of
tower top stage and ashlar cornice to roof. All windows with
plain ashlar architraves with raised springing block, raised
pendant keyblock, and sill. Square leaded lights with radial
glazing bars in window-heads except for 2 with later leaded
lights in apse.
INTERIOR: plain panelled west gallery. Flat ceiling with
simple cornice. Mid C18 pulpit with plain panels. 2 original
box pews on south side below pulpit, one large squire's box
pew on north side with a fireplace. Late C18 memorial tablet
with urn, commemorating Hale family.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: 1958-: 153).
Listing NGR: SO5485080393
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