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St. Cuthbert’s Church was founded in the year 1085 by Roger de Montgomery. At that time, William the Conqueror was still with us, which puts this time scale of 906 years into almost unimaginable perspective. Attending services and church activities today means a continuing inheritance of the Church on this site, giving us an unbroken connection with that time.

In his series “The buildings of England”, Nikolaus Pevsner describes St. Cuthbert’s  in the Shropshire volume as follows:

‘Early 14th Century chancel east window with intersected tracery, the other windows with a spheric triangle in the end. One is of the low-side variety and has a transom. The nave has a roof dated 1635, double hammer beams on carved brackets. The whole nave may be of that date and the elementary perpendicular windows are also assigned to Dean Cranage. The West tower is 19th century with a quatrefoil frieze below. North aisle and general restoration by John Norton. Good 14th century stained glass in fragments in chancel North window’.

The old tower collapsed on Lady Day, 25th March, in 1879 and belonged to two periods, the lower part and the next storey being circa 1200, the belfry or top part, 1500. The present tower was rebuilt in 1880 and is a reproduction with the exception of pinnacles on the four corners which had been added to the previous tower in 1700. The chancel is circa 1280, the nave having been rebuilt in 1635. This date is carved on some of the corbels and a beam bears the date with the inscription ‘Thomas Twigg. Carpenter, 1635.’

The north aisle was built and two galleries removed when the church was thoroughly restored during 1878-1879.

We like to think of St. Cuthbert’s today as a ‘little church with a big heart’, continuing to give help and inspiration to all who dwell around it.