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St Giles' Church, Barrow

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31: 47: 54: 464:. In the south wall is a Norman priest's doorway which cuts into an earlier window. In the nave the Norman features consist of two windows in the north wall, and a window and a doorway in the south wall. The tower has a Norman west doorway and one Norman window. The east wall of the nave has been built around the east 434:
dates from about 1100, and probably replaced an earlier timber nave. The lower parts of the tower date from later in the 12th century. A brick south porch was built in 1705, and the brick top stage of the tower and its pyramidal roof were added during the 18th century. The church was
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The chancel arch is Anglo-Saxon in origin, but it was altered during Street's restoration. The tower arch consists of the original Norman west doorway of the nave before the tower was built. Its
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Other than the brick top stage of the tower and the porch, the church is constructed in stone with tiled roofs. On the north wall of the chancel is an Anglo-Saxon window and traces of a strip
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panels. Also in the church is a poor box dating from about 1690 that is mounted in a later stem. The wall monuments date from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
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built the north chapel to replace a chapel dating from 1688, and also rebuilt the east wall of the chancel.
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consists of a plain tub on a cylindrical stem, and probably dates from the 12th century. The timber
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is united with those of All Saints, Broseley, St Mary, Jackfield, St Bartholomew, Benthall, and
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In the churchyard is the Neoclassical chest tomb of John Rose, the creator of the
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in the deanery of Telford Severn Gorge, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the
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St Giles' Church, Barrow is located in Shropshire
52°35′47″N 2°30′23″W / 52.5965°N 2.5065°W / 52.5965; -2.5065
OS grid reference
SO 658 999
Barrow
Shropshire
Denomination
Anglican
Broseley Parishes
Parish church
Dedication
Saint Giles
Architect(s)
G. E. Street
Ewan Christian
Church
Style
Anglo-Saxon
Norman
Neoclassical
Gothic Revival
Materials
Province
Canterbury
Diocese
Hereford
Archdeaconry
Deanery
Parish

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