“This yere, (1533) upon twelfe daye, in Shrowsbury, the dyvyll appearyd in St. Alkmund’s churche, there when the preest was at high masse, with great tempeste and darknesse, so that as he passyd through the churche he mountyd up the steeple in the saide churche, tering the wyers of the saide clocke, and put the print of his clawes upon the 4th bell, and took one of the pinnacles away with him, and for the time stayed all the bells in the churches within the saide towne, that they could neyther toll nor ringe.” Of the ancient tombs and mural monuments which abounded in the old edifice, none were preserved in the present structure worthy of notice, with the exception of a tablet to Chief Justice Jones, who died in 1692. Several tablets of a modern date adorn the walls. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s book at £6, now returned at £219. Patron, the Lord Chancellor; incumbent, the Rev. Charles Edward Leopold Wightman, M.A. ST. JULIAN’S CHURCH is situated upon elevated ground, at the top of the Wyle-cop, near to St. Alkmund’s church. Of its early foundation in Saxon times we possess no particulars. It was distinguished through several reigns as a rectory and a royal free chapel, with a peculiar jurisdiction. According to Tanner, at a very early period it was annexed to the free chapel of St. Michael, within the castle, and so continued until the reign of Henry IV., when they were both resigned into the king’s hands. Subsequently, the rectory was granted, among other things, to augment the new foundation of Battlefield College, and thenceforth the living became a mere stipendiary curacy. On the dissolution of that college, the living was granted by the crown to John Capper and Richard Trevor; and after many subsequent transfers, passed into the family of Prince, from whom it has descended to the present patron, the Earl of Tankerville.