Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHAD (St.)

CHAD (St.), a parish and a subdistrict in Shrewsbury district, Salop. The parish lies on the river Severn, the Ellesmere canal, and the Shrewsbury and Oswestry railway, partly within Shrewsbury borough, and extending thence to the NW; and it comprises the townships of Longney, Crow-Meole, Onslow, Frankwell, Betton and Alkmere, Bicton and Calcott, Shelton and Oxon, Whitley and Welbatch, and Woodcote and Horton. Post Town, Shrewsbury. Rated property, £36,014. Pop. 8,318. Houses, 1,690. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £350. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The original church was built by the Mercian kings; was long collegiate and a royal free chapel; was burned in 1393, afterwards restored, and finally ruined by the fall of the tower in 1788; but an aisle of it, of Norman character, was refitted for funeral services, and afterwards appropriated to a charity school. The present church was built in 1792, at a cost of £20,000; is a circular Grecian edifice, 100 feet in diameter, with dome and handsome tower, 150 feet high; and has the "Resurrection" by Egginton after West, brought from Lichfield cathedral. The vicarages of Bicton, Betton-Strange, Frankwell, and Oxon and Shelton are separate benefices. Job Orton, the biographer of Doddridge, was a native.-The subdistrict contains also the parish of Meole-Brace. Pop., 9,533. Houses, 1,950.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Shrewsbury St Chad AP/CP       St Chad SubD       Shrewsbury RegD/Inc       Shropshire AncC
Place names: CHAD ST     |     ST CHAD
Place: Shrewsbury

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