Lilleshall St George (Pains Lane), Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire

Parish History
Lilleshall St George was formed as a chapelry within Lilleshall, Shropshire Ancient parish; the chapel was consecrated in 1806. St George was rebuilt as a parish church and consecrated in 1862.

The first chapel was a plain brick building in the form of an equal-armed cross, and had simple pointed windows with Y tracery. A narrow tower of three stages projected west from the west end of the nave and served as a porch with vestry above. The badly constructed building was quickly attacked by damp and mining subsidence. Costly repairs were carried out but eventually, when the new parish was created, it seemed best to build a new church on the site. Consecrated in 1862 as a memorial to the 2nd duke, the new church cost some £4,000, almost all of it privately donated.

Designed by G. E. Street, the second church consists of a tunnel-vaulted chancel with north vestry, aisled and clerestoried nave of four bays, and a south porch under a tower. The style is late 13th-century and its handling, and the use of contrasted brick and grey and red stone are held to place the building among Street's most original early works. The tower was completed only in 1929: designed by Bertram Butler, it had a pyramidal roof instead of the stone spire intended by Street. A carillon was installed in it in 1929. In 1964 the communion plate consisted of a modern silver chalice and some Victorian plated pieces. The registers begin in 1806 and are complete.

From 'Lilleshall: Churches', A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11: Telford (1985), pp. 166-172. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18114 Date accessed: 12 May 2011.

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Church records
Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1813-1924 Marr 1813-1837 Bur 1813-1924

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