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St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals 
St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, from the southeastLocation in Shropshire
St Martin's Church, Preston GubbalsCoordinates: 52°46′18″N 2°45′17″W / 52.7717°N 2.7546°W OS grid reference SJ 491 196 Location Preston Gubbals, Shropshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Churches Conservation Trust History Dedication Saint Martin Architecture Functional status Redundant Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 13 June 1958 Architect(s) Samuel Pountney Smith Architectural type Church Style Gothic, Gothic Revival Specifications Materials Sandstone, tile roof St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2]
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History
St Martin's originated as a chapel of ease,[1] and what now remains was the chancel of a medieval parish church.[2] It was probably altered in the 14th or the 15th century.[1] In 1866 a new church was added to it, and it became the south aisle of that church.[2] This enlargement was designed by Samuel Pountney Smith, and cost £1,600 (£110,000 as of 2011).[3] In 1973 most of the work carried out in 1866 was demolished, leaving a single-cell building.[1] The arcade of the 1866 building has been retained, it has been blocked, and forms the north wall of the present building.[4] A bell formerly in the church is now the Sanctus bell in St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury. It was cast in 1720 by Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester.[5] The church was declared redundant on 1 June 1973, and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 14 November 1974.[6]
Architecture
Exterior
The building is constructed in sandstone with a tile roof. The nave and chancel form a single cell. The south side of the church contains two buttresses, three square-headed windows with two or three lights, a round-arched priest's door from the 12th century, and a 19th-century doorway. On the north side is the former nave arcade in three bays into which 20th-century three-light windows have been inserted. At the west end are round-arched windows, and a doorway that formerly led to the tower staircase. The east end contains a two-light window.[1]
Interior
Many of the carved wooden fittings were made by Rev E. D. Poole, the vicar of the church in the 19th century. These include the altar table and the reredos, the choir stalls, the pews, the lectern and the pulpit. On each side of the altar are boards containing the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer. The octagonal stone font dates probably from the 16th century; it has a 19th-century base and cover. The oak parish chest dates probably from the 17th century. To the left of the south door is a royal coat of arms, and on the east wall is a pair of benefactors' boards. The monuments include a stone coffin slab from the 14th century carved with the bust of a man above a foliated cross.[1]
External features
In the church yard is a sundial that was originally a churchyard cross. It is dated 1638, is octagonal and is constructed in sandstone. It consists of a chamfered base and two steps, on which is a baluster and a copper dial plate. It is listed Grade II.[7]
See also
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Church of St Martin, Pimhill", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1175242, retrieved 20 May 2011
- ^ a b c St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Martins-Church-Preston-Gubbals-Shropshire/, retrieved 29 March 2011
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Shropshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 479, ISBN 0-300-12083-4
- ^ Shrewsbury, St Alkmund, Shropshire Association Towers, http://www.sacbr.org.uk/S%27y%20Alkmund/Shrewsbury,%20St%20Alkmund.htm, retrieved 8 October 2010
- ^ (PDF) Diocese of Lichfield: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 4, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810690/lichfield%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 11 April 2011
- ^ "Sundial approximately 10 metres to the south of the Church of St Martin, Pimhill", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1055137, retrieved 20 May 2011
Categories:- Grade II* listed buildings in Shropshire
- Grade II* listed churches
- Church of England churches in Shropshire
- English Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
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