St. Mark's Church, Shelton
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St. Mark's Church, Shelton
Image: © Brian Deegan Taken: 25 May 2020
St. Mark's church stands on a prominent site in Shelton and its 120 foot (36.5 metre) tower is a landmark for miles around. The largest church in the city measuring 151 feet by 75 feet (46 x 23 m). Designed by J. Oates, erected in 1833 of freestone ashlars (i.e. faced with thin slabs of masonry) in the Early English style at a cost of £10,000. Most of the money came from the Church Commissioners, whose national brief was to finance new centres of Church of England worship in the rapidly expanding areas of population, and Shelton was one of these. Designed to hold a congregation of 2,100. In 1868 the original chancel was replaced with the polygonal one seen in the photograph above. In the 1970's the church was cleaned to remove the grime from over a 100 years of Potteries air. No.78 Neville Malkin's "Grand Tour" of the Potteries http://www.thepotteries.org/tour/078.htm http://www.thepotteries.org/church/hanley/st_mark.htm
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Image Location
Latitude
53.018989
Longitude
-2.181973