A guide, descriptive and historical, through the Town of ShrewsburyLeighton, W. A. (William Allport)
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A guide, descriptive and historical, through the Town of Shrewsbury
Leighton, W. A. (William Allport)
Shrewsbury (England) -- Guidebooks
The appointment of the Master was vested in the Abbot and Convent of
Shrewsbury, who, a short time previous to the Dissolution, granted a long
lease of it to Richard Lee, Esq. of Langley, who assigning his interest
to the family of Prince, of the White Hall, it passed with their other
estates into the Tankerville family. The Earl of Tankerville still
annually receives from the Sheriff the thirty shillings granted by Henry
II. and nominates the four hospitallers, who now live in the adjoining
comfortable cottages, and to each of whom his Lordship pays 1s. 6d. per
week, 3s. at Midsummer for coal, and 12s. 6d. at Christmas for a garment.
{153}
Near St. Giles’s is a handsome edifice of brick, built by government in
1806, at an expense of £10,000, after a design by Wyatt, and intended as
A DEPÔT
for containing the arms of the volunteer corps in this and the adjoining
counties.
The principal building is 135 feet by 39 feet, divided into an upper and
lower story, and is surrounded by an oblong enclosure, within which are
13 small neat houses. Little use having for many years been made of this
structure, it has, by purchase, become the property of the present Lord
Berwick. Recently it has been adapted as the Military Depôt of the
Shropshire Militia. {154}
We now return along the suburb of the Abbey Foregate,
“A long great streate, well builded large and faire,
In as good ayre, as may be wisht with wit.”
to the English Bridge.
Turning on the left we enter the suburb of Coleham, and soon arrive at
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY,
[Picture: Trinity Church]
consecrated August 25, 1837, for the accommodation of the numerous
inhabitants of Coleham, by voluntary subscriptions, aided by grants from
the Church Building Societies, at a cost of nearly £1900. Adjoining is a
large cemetery for the whole parish of St. Julian, and also commodious
school rooms. The church, which was made a district parish church in
1841, contains 812 sittings, of which 504 are free. In the gallery is a
small organ, by Bishop; in the window over the altar are figures in
stained glass of the Evangelists, and St. Peter and St. Paul; and in two
of the windows in the body of the church are various scriptural
medallions in stained glass, which, together with a handsome service of
communion plate, were presented by the piety of the late Rev. Richard
Scott, B.D.
Near to Belle Vue is the Dissenters’ Cemetery. {157}
Having passed the English Bridge we turn on the left, and following the
course of “the sandy-bottom’d Severn,” soon arrive at the remains of
THE FRANCISCAN, OR GREY, FRIARS,
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