St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury

The lost building contained the monument to [[John Weaver (dancer)|John Weaver]], father of English [[ballet]] and [[pantomime]].<ref name=DSc>{{Cite web |title=Dance Showcase |url=https://originalshrewsbury.co.uk/events/dance-showcase |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Original Shrewsbury |language=en-GB}}</ref> It also had a peal of ten bells, and on the south was the church-yard, which owing to the " accumulated remains of successive generations, during more than eleven centuries, had been raised to the level of the window sills," making the Church damp. This crypt was the oldest portion of the building, with the lower portion of the walls rudely built and possibly dating from the 9th century. By tradition, the Jesse window that is now in [[St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury|St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury]] was put in Old St Chad’s at the Dissolution, having been allegedly made for the [[Franciscan]] church in Shrewsbury.<ref>{{Cite web |title=StChadsPart1 |url=https://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/StChadShrewsburyPart1.html |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=www.melocki.org.uk}}</ref>

The lost building contained the monument to [[John Weaver (dancer)|John Weaver]], father of English [[ballet]] and [[pantomime]].<ref name=DSc>{{Cite web |title=Dance Showcase |url=https://originalshrewsbury.co.uk/events/dance-showcase |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Original Shrewsbury |language=en-GB}}</ref> It also had a peal of ten bells, and on the south was the church-yard, which owing to the " accumulated remains of successive generations, during more than eleven centuries, had been raised to the level of the window sills," making the Church damp. This crypt was the oldest portion of the building, with the lower portion of the walls rudely built and possibly dating from the 9th century. By tradition, the Jesse window that is now in [[St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury|St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury]] was put in Old St Chad’s at the Dissolution, having been allegedly made for the [[Franciscan]] church in Shrewsbury.<ref>{{Cite web |title=StChadsPart1 |url=https://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/StChadShrewsburyPart1.html |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=www.melocki.org.uk}}</ref>

The building on the previous site was largely destroyed when the central tower collapsed in 1788; what existed of the building when this collapse happened was a largely 13th-century building. All that remains of the earlier building is a side chapel surrounded by a disused churchyard which also contains the exposed [[crypt]].[[File:Shrewsbury - St Chad's Church - geograph.org.uk - 2097335.jpg|thumb|right|Inside St Chad's Church, looking towards the sanctuary]]

The building on the previous site was largely destroyed when the central tower collapsed in 1788;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lambert |first=Tim |title=Saxon and Medieval Shrewsbury |url=http://www.localhistories.org/shrewsbury.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315203401/http://www.localhistories.org/shrewsbury.html |archive-date=15 March 2012 |website=A Short History of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England |publisher=A World History Encyclopaedia |df=dmy-all}}</ref> what existed of the building when this collapse happened was a largely 13th-century building. All that remains of the earlier building is a side chapel surrounded by a disused churchyard which also contains the exposed [[crypt]].[[File:Shrewsbury - St Chad's Church - geograph.org.uk - 2097335.jpg|thumb|right|Inside St Chad's Church, looking towards the sanctuary]]

[[File:St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury 2017.jpg|thumb|[[Palladian architecture|Palladian-style]] entrance to the church]]

[[File:St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury 2017.jpg|thumb|[[Palladian architecture|Palladian-style]] entrance to the church]]