English Heritage sites near Shawbury Parish
MORETON CORBET CASTLE
2 miles from Shawbury Parish
The ruins of the medieval castle and Tudor manor house of the Corbets are dominated by the theatrical shell of an ambitious Elizabethan mansion wing in Italianate style.
HAUGHMOND ABBEY
4 miles from Shawbury Parish
Extensive remains of Augustinian abbey, including abbots' quarters, refectory & cloister. Chapter house frontage with 12th & 14th century carving & statuary, timber roof c.1500. Displays, picnic area.
WROXETER ROMAN CITY
8 miles from Shawbury Parish
Wroxeter (or 'Viroconium' ) was the fourth largest city in Roman Britain. It began as a legionary fortress and later developed into a thriving civilian city.
CANTLOP BRIDGE
9 miles from Shawbury Parish
Built in 1813, this innovative, single-span, cast-iron road bridge over the Cound Brook was possibly designed and certainly approved by the great engineer Thomas Telford.
LILLESHALL ABBEY
11 miles from Shawbury Parish
Extensive ruins of an Augustinian abbey, later a Civil War stronghold, in a deeply rural setting.
BUILDWAS ABBEY
12 miles from Shawbury Parish
The impressive ruins of this Cistercian abbey have an idyllic setting near the River Severn. Unaltered 12th century church and beautiful vaulted chapter house with tiled floor.
Churches in Shawbury Parish
Shawbury S.Mary the Virgin
Church Street
Shawbury
Shrewsbury
01939 250990
https://shropshirechurches.uk
St Mary's is an early Mediaeval church , on a site used for worship for over 900 years, but the building is one which you can see is cared for and well used for prayer and worship today.
Recent improvements include the provision of a large carpetted area in the chancel where smaller services can be held, and a levelling of the porch with a new access ramp for anyone who needs to come in on wheels. Our latest project, to continue the efforts to make the church comfortably accessible for all, has been to build a new ringing chamber in the tower with kitchen and toilet facilities underneath.
The parish includes the base at RAF Shawbury, and so tries to offer a spiritual home to any who are just staying in the area for a short time as well as to more permanent residents.
Regular service times here:
Sunday 8am Holy Communion - First and Third Sundays
Sunday 11am Family Communion [Second and Fourth Sundays] or 11am Morning Prayer [First and third Sundays]
Thursday 10am Holy Communion - coffee afterwards
Shawbury is grouped with the neighbouring churches of Moreton Corbet and Stanton upon Hine Heath - all were begun in the 12th Century and are open daily if you would like to visit them.
We are glad to hear from those interested in baptism [christening], marriage, or simply in finding out more about the Christian faith which the three churches have represented here over almost a millennium.
There is a list kept in a purple folder at the back of the church to record the names of people we have been asked to pray for, and you are very welcome to add other names if you would like us to pray for them.
Pubs in Shawbury Parish
Elephant & Castle
Drayton Road, Shawbury, SY4 4HP
(01939) 250205
elephantandcastleshawbury.com/index
Fox & Hounds
Wytheford Road, Shawbury, SY4 4JG
(01939) 250600
foxandhoundsshawbury.co.uk/