Whitchurch, Shropshire

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Beacon Church at the Watergate Centre on Watergate, as seen by Streetview in 2025. SJ 5418 4146. Link.

Congregational Chapel (1846) on Dodington. SJ 5431 4131. © Peter Morgan (2010). Another view, © Alan Blacklock (2010). Grade II listed.

Maps from the early 20th century show a Free Church on High Gate at SJ 5408 4123. The same building seems to be present but unlabelled on a map of 1884. I haven't been able to discover any references to it. Its site stands immediately behind the hedge seen in a Streetview from 2025.

The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is on Claypit Street, and was seen by Streetview in 2022. SJ 5434 4184.

The former Particular Baptist Chapel on Green End. It pre-dates a map of 1880, and one on-line source (no longer available in 2025) suggests a date of 1820. The same source says that it succeeded an earlier chapel on the same site, and that it closed in 1939. It's now an antiques centre. SJ 5428 4153. © Martin Richter (2018).

St. Alkmund on High Street dates from the early 18th century. SJ 5410 4171. © Peter Morgan. Another view, and two of the interior - 1, 2, all © Alan Blacklock (2010). Another view, two Victorian windows - 1, 2, and the font, which an information board dates to 1661, with font cover of 1713, all © John Balaam (2025). Link. Grade I listed. For the listed sun-dial and a monument, see here.

The former St. Catherine (1836) on Dodington was an antiques centre in 2010. SJ 5430 4123. © Peter Morgan (2010). A later view (© Sandy Calder) when it was undergoing conversion for residential use. Link. Grade II listed. The forecourt walls, etc., are also listed, at grade II.

St. George (R.C.) on Claypit Street, as seen by Streetview in 2025. SJ 5421 4174. Link. The history page dates it to 1877-8.

St. John (Methodist), on St. John's Street and Brownlow Street. A map of 1880 labels it as Wesleyan. SJ 5434 4173. © Peter Morgan. Link. Grade II listed - dates it to 1879. O.S. maps label it as a Post Office by 1899.

Whitchurch Heritage Centre on St. Mary's Street is the former Wesleyan Methodist Church, dating from 1810. O.S. maps label it as a Post Office by 1899. SJ 5421 4162. © Steve Bulman (2011). Grade II listed.

The former Methodist Church on Castle Hill, originally Primitive Methodist. This source has a date of 1866 - a comment lower down the page, quoting from a newspaper of 1866 says that "The site of the building adjoins the old chapel". Old maps don't' indicate exactly where this old chapel stood. At some point subsequent to closure in 1970, it was used as a Masonic Temple; in 2025 Google Streetview shows that it has signage for North Shropshire Masonic Rooms. Circa SJ 5413 4146. © Steve Bulman (2014).

Whitchurch Union Workhouse had a chapel at SJ 5445 4188. It survives as part of the local hospital, and was seen by Streetview in 2022. Another photo of the chapel can be seen here, a history of the workhouse.