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Middleton Chapel

Middleton Chapel

Middleton

Shropshire

C12, restored 1857.

Architectural Features

Plain-tile roof.

EXTERIOR: C19 chancel east window of 3 Norman-style lancets with roundel over.

Flat-headed C12 lancet to south.

North wall with single C12 Norman lancet.

Nave: north wall has C12 Norman lancet, and C19 restored Norman-style lancet and doorway and 2 ashlar buttresses.

South wall has single C12 Norman lancet and 3 C19 Norman-style lancets interspersed with 3 C19 ashlar buttresses.

West end rebuilt mid C19 incorporating arched west window in Norman style, the window set in projecting buttress rising to form bellcote with ashlar-roofed canopy with single bell-opening.

Stained glass in east window by Kempe.

Arched entrance inset with carving and initials N N on one spandrel.

Vaulting over arcade with bressumer with 3 bands of foliage carving.

Screen was dated 1582 prior to restoration.

Each truss of principals, collar, hammerbeams with carved ends, strut and restored arch-braces, wall-posts and brackets.

C16 plain octagonal font.