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1-4 Church Terrace

A Grade II Listed Building in St Martin's, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9201 / 52°55'12"N

Longitude: -3.0098 / 3°0'35"W

OS Eastings: 332199

OS Northings: 336328

OS Grid: SJ321363

Mapcode National: GBR 75.N1CD

Mapcode Global: WH89J.QVYS

Plus Code: 9C4RWXCR+23

Entry Name: 1-4 Church Terrace

Listing Date: 19 January 1952

Last Amended: 2 September 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1054254

English Heritage Legacy ID: 255722

ID on this website: 101054254

Location: New Ifton, Shropshire, SY11

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: St. Martin's

Built-Up Area: St Martin's

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: St Martin's St Martin

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


SJ 33 NW
2/10

ST MARTIN'S CP
CHURCH TERRACE
Nos 1-4 (inclusive)

(formerly listed as The Almshouses, St Martin's)

19.01.52

GV

II
Almshouses. Dated 1698, altered 1810 with later repairs and additions. Red brick (mixed bond) with stone angle quoins and moulded eaves cornice carried up around central projecting pediment; hipped graded slate roof.

Formerly seven dwellings, now divided into four cottages. Single storey. Symmetrical fenestration: C20 casements (replacing C19 latticed windows) with C18 or early C19 gauged heads flanking paired entrances to left and right. Similar arrangement of windows to either side of entrance to pediment with doorways and adjoining windows in angles to left and right. Entrances all have C20 nail-studded doors and C19 rectangular overlights. Ridge stacks rebuilt in C19 red brick to left and right of pediment and integral end stacks. Datestone to pediment inscribed 'This School for the Education / of twelve poor Female Children / in the Doctrines of the Established Church / was instituted A.D. 1810 / By / Charlotte Vicountess Dungannon / Sit Deo Gloria.'

Another to right end wall reads 'These Alms Houses / for the Maintenance of Six Poor Women / were founded A.D. 1698 / by the Rt. Hon.ble Sir JOHN TREVOR Kt. / of BRYNKINALT / Speaker of the House of Commons and / Master of the Rolls during the Reigns / of King William III.rd and Queen Anne. / Deus nobis hac otia fecit.'

Listing NGR: SJ3218436328

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