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Church in England
Shrewsbury Unitarian Church
is a
Grade II listed
building
[1]
situated on the High Street in
Shrewsbury
, England. The
meeting house
was founded in its present site in 1662 by the Revd
Francis Tallents
and the Revd John Bryan, two dissenters ejected from
St Mary's Church
and
St Chad's Church
respectively. It was destroyed by a mob of
Jacobite
supporters in 1715 but rebuilt the same year.
In 1798,
Samuel Coleridge
[2]
accepted the position of minister at the church, (salary £120 a year) and the effect of his first sermon is recorded by the 19-year-old
William Hazlitt
from
Wem
. Arriving in Shrewsbury at 8 p.m. on Saturday 13 January, he preached his first sermon on 14 January and with two others on 21 and 28 January, allowing him to leave Shrewsbury on 29 January for Cote House, the home of John Wedgewood at
Westbury near Bristol
. Coleridge's stay in Shrewsbury was just over two weeks before being offered £150 a year from
Thomas Wedgwood
to give up his position and study poetry and philosophy.
Charles Darwin
worshipped at the church until he was eight years of age when his mother died in 1817.
The whole building was rebuilt on its present site in 1839-40 by local architect,
John Carline, Jnr
[3]
with money provided by
George the First
's government.
[
citation needed
]
The town plan of 1882 shows it had a small courtyard, which was removed when the High Street was widened, and that it seated 350 people. In 1885 its present stone facade was made designed by another local architect,
A.B. Deakin
.
[3]
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