Pradoe Church - Oswestry, Shropshire - Anglican and Episcopal Churches on Waymarking.com

Pradoe (Extra Parochial) church, Oswestry.

"Chapel of ease built by Rhode Hawkins in 1860 was commissioned by Thomas Kenyon to save local people the long trek to the village church. A Gothic pastiche of mid-C13 design. The roof is unbayed, coming off stone walls. It may be classified as a six-canted, ashlared, scissor-braced roof. The thrust is taken uniformly on the wall -plates and the stability of the roof relies on stone gable walls, careful jointing on the rafters into the wall-plates and the sheer weight of each roof truss. As such it is alien to Shropshire but is the clearest and most accessible example of the southern unbayed system.

Estate chapel. 1860-1 by Rhode Hawkins for Louisa Charlotte Kenyon; chancel and north aisle added in 1864. Snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; machine tile roofs with coped verges and ornamental cresting. Nave; chancel; north chancel aisle and north tower. Decorated style. Tower. In 2 stages with double-chamfered string course and diagonal buttresses to bottom stage at north-east and north-west corners. Chamfered rectangular window to ground floor on north and single-chamfered pointed doorway to west. Belfry windows of 2 cusped lights with trefoils above and head-stops to hoodmoulds. Cornice with dogtooth decoration and pyramidal spire. Nave. Buttressed in 3 bays to south. Window with Geometrical tracery to centre and cusped lancet to right. Gabled timber porch to left over pointed chamfered doorway. West window of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil above and foliated label-stops to hoodmould. Stone dentilled eaves cornice on north and south sides continued to chancel. This has 2 cusped lancets to south and east window of 3 lights with Geometrical tracery, hoodmould and floriated label-stops. North chancel aisle has single cusped window to west of shouldered doorway under lean-to hood carried down from roof. East window similar to that of chancel. Interior: Trussed rafter roofs to nave and chancel. Pointed chancel arch with richly foliated corbelled responds. North chancel arcade in 3 bays with 2 clustered columns supporting foliated capitals; pierced trefoils above to spandrels. Pointed single-chamfered doorway to tower. Fittings and furnishings c. 1860 or later, including pulpit and octagonal font (c. 1868). C19 copy of Van Eyck's Triptych for Ghent Cathedral by south door. Marble and mosaic reredos c. 1897 and encaustic tiles in sanctuary. Stained glass in chancel probably c. 1864 and west window commemorates Rowland Whitehall Kenyon (died 1873). Monuments. Plain wall memorial to founder: chancel, south side. Henry, son of Thomas Kenyon (died 1827) at west end of nave: plaster copy of original monument at Pradoe (qv) by Thomas Carline of Shrewsbury - sleeping child."

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Active Church: No School on property: No Date Built: 01/01/1860 Service Times: Not listed Website: Not listed

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