Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residentsPidgeon, Henry
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Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residents
Pidgeon, Henry
Shrewsbury (England) -- Guidebooks
At the base of the window is a series of pointed arches in ruby glass,
beneath which is the following inscription: HANC • FENESTRAM • PICTURATAM
• AEDIS • SANCTI • GEORGII • DECORANDAE • ERGO • DONAVIT • RICARDUS •
SCOTT • SACRAE • THEOLOGIAE • BACCALAUREUS • ANNO • SALUTIS •
MDCCCXXXIII.
The triple windows of the north and south transepts are also embellished
by the same benefactor with elegant mosaic patterns of elaborate
workmanship, vying in richness and mellowness of colouring with the
finest specimens of ancient stained glass.
The taste displayed in the execution of these windows is highly
creditable to the talents of our townsman, Mr. David Evans, and will, we
trust, long remain as a noble example of private generosity.
Attached to the west end is a deep gallery of free seats, which contains
a small organ, presented by the Rev. Richard Scott, B.D. in 1834.
The church was erected by a public subscription and a grant from the
commissioners for building churches. The total cost, exclusive of the
site, was nearly £4000, of which sum, however, £400 has been vested in
the name of trustees as a fund for future repairs.
There are 57 pews which will accommodate 290 persons, and 460 free and
unappropriated sittings.
The right of presentation is in the vicar of St. Chad’s.
* * * * *
THE OLD HOSPITAL OF ST. GEORGE stood on a site eastward between the
present church and the Welsh bridge, which latter, as early as the reign
of Henry II. was called “Saint George’s Bridge.” About the year 1150,
the Bishop of Coventry, considering the great poverty of the brethren of
the Hospital of St. George, Salop, released to all who should contribute
to their necessities “thirteen days of penance enjoined them, and a share
of all the prayers and alms within his Bishoprick.” In 1418 the church
appears to have been in the gift of the Crown, and is supposed to have
been taken down early in the reign of Elizabeth.
TRINITY CHURCH.
[Picture: Trinity Church, Coleham]
The necessity of additional church accommodation for a population of 2200
persons who inhabit the SUBURB OF COLEHAM having been generally
acknowledged, inasmuch as most of them were destitute of sittings in the
parish church, where many of the pews are freehold, and others let at
such rents as are beyond the means not only of the labouring poor (who
form the greater part of the township) but of the class immediately above
them, a meeting of the parishioners and others interested in the
spiritual welfare of this isolated district of the town, was therefore
held in the vestry of St. Julian’s church, Dec. 7th, 1835, when it was
resolved to be highly necessary to erect a chapel of ease in Coleham,
with free sittings for at least two-thirds of the number it may contain.
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