St. Peter and St. Paul Roman Catholic Church is a

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of the

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Newport, Shropshire Newport is a constituent market town in Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. It lies north of Telford, west of Stafford, and is near the Shropshire-Staffordshire border. The 2001 census recorded 10,814 people living in the town's paris ...

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. The parish covers Newport and the surrounding villages as far as

Hinstock Hinstock is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It appeared in the Domesday book survey as "Stoche" (from Old English ''stoc'', "dependent settlement"); the present version of its name was created in the mediaeval period by prefix ...

. Salters Hall, in Salters Lane, Newport, is attached to the church. It was designed by

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and built in 1852.

History

Sts. Peter and Paul's is the oldest Catholic parish in

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. It became a parish in 1650 when it was connected with the Catholic Talbot family at

Longford Hall Longford Hall is a large country house in Longford, a village in Shropshire, England near the town of Newport. Building history Longford Hall was built in 1275 by Adam de Brompton and owned by the Earl of Shrewsbury. In April 1644 it was capt ...

. When Longford Hall was sold in 1789, the priest was provided with another residence by the

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—Salters Hall, named after Judge Salter, who was high sheriff of Shropshire. It was the home of the first Bishop of Shrewsbury, James Brown, from 1851 to 1868. The church was built onto the house in 1832, although not consecrated until 1906, and the old house was absorbed into the present large building. The church contains a series of five large twentieth-century stained-glass windows designed and made by Margaret Rope, depicting Saints Peter and Paul, Winefride and Nicholas, and Our Lady Help of Christians. In a garden outside the east end is the church war memorial, consisting of a stone figure of Christ on a wooden

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with the

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indicated in red paint, to members of its congregation who died in

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File:SSPeterandPaulNewport.jpg, Inside SS Peter and Paul Church File:S Peter Newport Shropshire.jpg, Detail of the Saint Peter window at SS Peter & Paul, Newport, Shropshire, by Margaret Rope File:1853 envelope from London.jpg, Envelope from London addressed to Bishop Brown 1853

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* 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom Augustus Pugin buildings Buildings and structures in Newport, Shropshire Grade II listed churches in Shropshire Religious organizations established in the 1650s Roman Catholic churches completed in 1832 Roman Catholic churches in Shropshire {{England-church-stub

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