The Churches of Britain and Ireland

Telford, Shropshire

Telford on Wikipedia.
 

Churches at Madeley.
 

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on The Crescent, Lawley, as seen by Streetview in 2024. SJ 6726 0833. Link.

The crematorium chapel on Woodhouse Lane, Redhill. SJ 7281 1109. © Dennis Harper (2025).

Elim Community Church (2022 Streetview), on Brookdale, Hadley. SJ 6706 1204. Link. The about us page dates the present church building to 2012.

Guru Nanak Gurdwara on Hadley Park Road, Hadley, as seen by Streetview in 2024. It's dated here to 1968. SJ 6721 1218.

Holy Trinity, on Holly Road and Old Vicarage Road, Dawley, as seen by Streetview in 2021. SJ 6872 0648. Link. Grade II listed - dates it to 1845.

Holy Trinity (2019 Streetview) on Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood. SJ 6994 1264. Link. Another page - Holy Trinity Wrockwardine Wood – Historic Images has photos of a tin tabernacle, but it must post-date the church itself - so what's going on here? Grade II listed - dates it to 1833, and has a good photo.

Lighthouse Church (2024 Streetview) on Holyhead Road. The building was, until recently, a car dealership. SJ 6841 1093. Link.

Older O.S. maps show a Primitive Methodist Chapel on High Street and Gladstone Street, Hadley, at SJ 6758 1196. This source dates it to 1879-1933, successor to an earlier chapel of 1841. Whether it was on the same site or not isn't specified. It stood on the left of the road seen in a Streetview in 2022.

R.C.C.G. Fountain of Grace Worship Centre (2024 Streetview) on High Street and Manse Road in Hadley. It was originally Wesleyan Methodist, pre-dating a map of 1887, and dated here to 1866. SJ 6737 1206. Link.

St. John the Evangelist on Dawley Road, Lawley. SJ 6673 0871. © Gill Gaiser. Link. Its grade II listing dates it to 1865.

The former St. Luke on St. Luke's Road, Doseley, now a private residence. Thanks to Janet Gimber for providing the dedication. SJ 6774 0656. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1845.

St. Mary and St. Leonard (2009 Streetview) on Wombridge Road, Wombridge. SJ 6910 1163. Link. Close to the church, to the S.E., O.S. maps mark Site of Priory (Augustinian). In a 2022 Streetview, the church is on the right of the road, site of the Priory at left. SJ 6912 1159.
 

Madeley
Catholic Church of St. Mary on High Street. Another view. SJ 6982 0450. Both © Dennis Harper (2012). Link.
Madeley Baptist Church on High Street. Another view. Both © Dennis Harper (2012). Link. The history page dates it to 1857-8.
Madeley Methodist Church on Court Street. The church notice board proclaims itself as "Fletcher Methodist Church". SJ 6965 0445. © Bill Henderson. Originally Wesleyan and built in 1841, according to its date-stone. © Dennis Harper (2012). This source dates it closure to no later than 2015, and mentions a predecessor of 1833 on Church Street. None of the available maps show where it stands (converted) and I haven't been able to find a photo of it. Link.
St. Chad's Mission Church at Blist's Hill, was originally a Mission Room, from Granville Road, Donnington, Telford (and now called Lodge Bank). Map evidence implies a building date of the 1890's. It was closed in 1979. Interior view. Blist's Hill is a Victorian Village, largely re-created with building's moved here from their original locations. Present grid reference SJ 6942 0308; in it's original position - SJ 7210 1248. Both © James Murray. Another view, and two more of the interior - 1, 2, all © Carole Sage (2018). Link. Also on display at Blist's Hill is an old tram car which served as a mobile Gospel Hall and Sunday School in Bridgnorth. Another photo of it is available here, where it also says that "
This was originally built in 1904 as a double decker tramcar and worked the Wolverhampton area. It was converted into a Sunday school for the Bridgenorth Peoples Hall Mission in 1928". SJ 6945 0344. © Carole Sage (2018).
St. Michael on Church Street - a Telford church of 1796. SJ 6963 0409. From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. A modern view, from Streetview in 2022. Link. Grade II* listed. For related listed features see here.

 

 

 

 

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