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Shrewsbury Town Centre Three W Nders to Wander 01743 357 006 357 01743 1689 244 0113 or tel [email protected] [email protected] or email www.visitchurches.org.uk 01743 258888 01743 [email protected] tel tel email www.visitshrewsbury.com www.visitshrewsbury.com else’s shoes and see what you can discover. can you what see and shoes else’s A WALK THROUGH HISTORY THROUGH WALK A Treasure Island. Treasure So slip into someone someone into slip So in Inn, the of AND CHURCHES SHREWSBURY THREE 01743 365478 01743 Benbow, the heroic mariner and inspiration for the name the for inspiration and mariner heroic the Benbow, or tel tel or A Christmas Carol; Carol; Christmas A commemorating Admiral John Admiral commemorating [email protected] Email starring in cinematic classics such as Charles Dickens’ Charles as such classics cinematic in starring www.stchadschurchshrewsbury.com Cadfael; Inspiring monastic adventures in Ellis Peters’ Peters’ Ellis in adventures monastic Inspiring Tuesday 5.00pm Tuesday Choral Evensong (in term-time) (in Evensong Choral 10.30am Wednesday Holy Communion Holy Daily prayer Daily 8am and 5.00pm and 8am Eucharist, 6pm Choral Evensong. Choral 6pm Eucharist, Sunday Services Sunday 8am Holy Eucharist, 10am St Chad’s Chad’s St 10am Eucharist, Holy 8am Monday – Saturday Saturday – Monday 8am – 5.30pm – 8am AD 780 ST CHAD’S CHURCH CHURCH CHAD’S ST Shrewsbury-Shropshire/ Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-Mary-the-Virgin- www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/ (1st May - 8th December) 8th - May (1st Monday to Saturday to Monday 5:00pm – 10:00am Monday - Saturday - Monday 10am – 4pm (up to the 30th April) 30th the to (up 4pm – 10am SHREWSBURY ST MARY’S ST SHREWSBURY 01743 232723 01743 or tel tel or [email protected] Email www.shrewsburyabbey.com to Wander to! Wander to Thursday 12 noon noon 12 Thursday Holy Communion Holy Daily Prayer Daily 8.30am and 3pm Choral Evensong Choral 3pm and Three Wonders Wonders Three Sunday Services Services Sunday Communion Holy 10am Last entrances 15 minutes before closure. before minutes 15 entrances Last THROUGH Saturday – Monday (Summer) (Summer) 4pm – 10am Monday – Saturday Saturday – Monday TO WANDER WANDER TO 10.30am – 3.30pm (Winter) (Winter) 3.30pm – 10.30am SHREWSBURY ABBEY SHREWSBURY NDERS W OPENING HOURS HOURS OPENING THREE THREE W NDERS SHREWSBURY TOWN CENTRE DRINKW WIN ST HUNTER ST DAR MOUNT ST A TO WANDER TER ST CHESTER ST FRANKWELL ALMA ST THROUGH MOUNT ST LONGNER ST A458 FRANKWELL SMITHFIELD RD N Train Station ES L Walk through history by visiting three of A488 NETTL Shrewsbury’s most important buildings – FRANKWELL A488 The Castle Shrewsbury Abbey, St. Mary the Virgin and Library St. Chad’s. Theatre Severn A458 Bus Station A488 SMITHFIELD RDRiverside Shopping Y Follow in the shoes of Shrewsbury folk from medieval Centre Darwin RIVER SEVERN MARDOL QUA CASTLE ST Shopping TRAITORS times to the Georgian period through streets they GATE Y VEN MEADOWS Centre A RA would still recognise today. VICTORIA QU ST MARYS WATER LANE NEW STREET St Mary’s MARDOL ROUSHILL Find a Welsh saint, the first House of Commons, a K BARKER ST Pride Hill The Parade Sixth Form N A Shopping B Collage tree of glass and the church where Charles Darwin T Centre PRIORY RD N St Alkmunds O M Rowley’s PRIDE HILL was baptised. E R House A L ST MARY’S PLACE C Darwin Gate The Abbey BELLSTONE St Chad’s HIGH STREET Quarry Park CHURCH ST Old Market Hall Music Hall Indoor A5191 S PRINCESS ST T Market . C H i St Julian’s A . DOGPOLE D WYLE COP S COLLEGE HILL A458 Wildlife Trust T E R R A C . JOHNS HILL E ST Old St Chad’s KEY ENGLISH A5191 BRIDGE BELMONT OLD POTTS W M Y PL U WYLE COP R IV BANK AN C AN HILL QUARR E BELMONT SW Car parks BEECHES LN A Monks’ walk Y Pedestrian walks Medieval walk ALLS Main Town roads Cathedral TOWN W Georgian walk Side streets One-way routes Railway line Pump House M CRESCENT LN O R E T Boat House O N C R E S C E N T SHREWSBURY RIVER SEVERN SCHOOL 01743 357 006 357 01743 1689 244 0113 or tel [email protected] [email protected] or email www.visitchurches.org.uk 01743 258888 01743 [email protected] tel tel email www.visitshrewsbury.com www.visitshrewsbury.com else’s shoes and see what you can discover. can you what see and shoes else’s A WALK THROUGH HISTORY THROUGH WALK A Treasure Island. Treasure So slip into someone someone into slip So in Inn, the of AND CHURCHES SHREWSBURY THREE 01743 365478 01743 Benbow, the heroic mariner and inspiration for the name the for inspiration and mariner heroic the Benbow, or tel tel or A Christmas Carol; Carol; Christmas A commemorating Admiral John Admiral commemorating [email protected] Email starring in cinematic classics such as Charles Dickens’ Charles as such classics cinematic in starring www.stchadschurchshrewsbury.com Cadfael; Inspiring monastic adventures in Ellis Peters’ Peters’ Ellis in adventures monastic Inspiring Tuesday 5.00pm Tuesday Choral Evensong (in term-time) (in Evensong Choral 10.30am Wednesday Holy Communion Holy Daily prayer Daily 8am and 5.00pm and 8am Eucharist, 6pm Choral Evensong. Choral 6pm Eucharist, Sunday Services Sunday 8am Holy Eucharist, 10am St Chad’s Chad’s St 10am Eucharist, Holy 8am Monday – Saturday Saturday – Monday 8am – 5.30pm – 8am AD 780 ST CHAD’S CHURCH CHURCH CHAD’S ST Shrewsbury-Shropshire/ Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-Mary-the-Virgin- www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/ (1st May - 8th December) 8th - May (1st Monday to Saturday to Monday 5:00pm – 10:00am Monday - Saturday - Monday 10am – 4pm (up to the 30th April) 30th the to (up 4pm – 10am SHREWSBURY ST MARY’S ST SHREWSBURY 01743 232723 01743 or tel tel or [email protected] Email www.shrewsburyabbey.com to Wander to! Wander to Thursday 12 noon noon 12 Thursday Holy Communion Holy Daily Prayer Daily 8.30am and 3pm Choral Evensong Choral 3pm and Three Wonders Wonders Three Sunday Services Services Sunday Communion Holy 10am Last entrances 15 minutes before closure. before minutes 15 entrances Last THROUGH Saturday – Monday (Summer) (Summer) 4pm – 10am Monday – Saturday Saturday – Monday TO WANDER WANDER TO 10.30am – 3.30pm (Winter) (Winter) 3.30pm – 10.30am SHREWSBURY ABBEY SHREWSBURY NDERS W OPENING HOURS HOURS OPENING THREE THREE W NDERS SHREWSBURY TOWN CENTRE DRINKW WIN ST HUNTER ST DAR MOUNT ST A TO WANDER TER ST CHESTER ST FRANKWELL ALMA ST THROUGH MOUNT ST LONGNER ST A458 FRANKWELL SMITHFIELD RD N Train Station ES L Walk through history by visiting three of A488 NETTL Shrewsbury’s most important buildings – FRANKWELL A488 The Castle Shrewsbury Abbey, St. Mary the Virgin and Library St. Chad’s. Theatre Severn A458 Bus Station A488 SMITHFIELD RDRiverside Shopping Y Follow in the shoes of Shrewsbury folk from medieval Centre Darwin RIVER SEVERN MARDOL QUA CASTLE ST Shopping TRAITORS times to the Georgian period through streets they GATE Y VEN MEADOWS Centre A RA would still recognise today. VICTORIA QU ST MARYS WATER LANE NEW STREET St Mary’s MARDOL ROUSHILL Find a Welsh saint, the first House of Commons, a K BARKER ST Pride Hill The Parade Sixth Form N A Shopping B Collage tree of glass and the church where Charles Darwin T Centre PRIORY RD N St Alkmunds O M Rowley’s PRIDE HILL was baptised. E R House A L ST MARY’S PLACE C Darwin Gate The Abbey BELLSTONE St Chad’s HIGH STREET Quarry Park CHURCH ST Old Market Hall Music Hall Indoor A5191 S PRINCESS ST T Market . C H i St Julian’s A . DOGPOLE D WYLE COP S COLLEGE HILL A458 Wildlife Trust T E R R A C . JOHNS HILL E ST Old St Chad’s KEY ENGLISH A5191 BRIDGE BELMONT OLD POTTS W M Y PL U WYLE COP R IV BANK AN C AN HILL QUARR E BELMONT SW Car parks BEECHES LN A Monks’ walk Y Pedestrian walks Medieval walk ALLS Main Town roads Cathedral TOWN W Georgian walk Side streets One-way routes Railway line Pump House M CRESCENT LN O R E T Boat House O N C R E S C E N T SHREWSBURY RIVER SEVERN SCHOOL SHREWSBURY ABBEY SHREWSBURY ST MARY’S SHREWSBURY ST CHAD’S The spire of St Mary’s is one of the tallest in England and for over 500 years it has dominated the skyline of Shrewsbury’s old town. In 1739, showman Robert Cadman attempted to slide Shrewsbury Abbey was founded in 1084 by the from it, head first, using a rope and a grooved Norman Roger de Montgomery and started life as breastplate. His engraved obituary stands outside a small wooden Saxon chapel of St. Peter. the west door. St Chad’s Welcomes you to the only Grade I listed circular Georgian church in England. It was the priest of St. Peter’s church, who, returning from The church is now the only complete Medieval church in a pilgrimage to Rome, persuaded Roger de Montgomery, Shrewsbury. It dates from Saxon times and has beautiful St Chad’s was founded by Offa, King the newly appointed Earl of Shrewsbury, to turn the church additions from the 12th-Century onwards. Inside, the of Mercia, in the year 780AD and was into an Abbey. Roger sent for two monks from Normandy to atmosphere is peaceful with the soaring stone arches rebuilt in the 13th century. In 1788 direct the construction of the Abbey. giving way to the church’s great treasure - its stained glass.
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