Archive: A Church Spire to Die for ; Chris Upton Relates the Sorry Demise of Shrewsbury Stuntman Robert Cadman

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The town of Shrewsbury once boasted no fewer than six medieval churches and an abbey.

But what we might call "rationalisation" has set in over the centuries, reducing the number to just two active institutions. Spires have fallen down, congregations dwindled, walls caved in and saints have packed their bags and left.

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Archive: A Church Spire to Die for ; Chris Upton Relates the Sorry Demise of Shrewsbury Stuntman Robert Cadman

Even St Mary's, the most prominent and impressive of the town churches, has now been declared redundant, meaning (ironically) that Sunday is the one day it isn't open.

One of the tallest spires in England (222 feet high) makes St Mary's unmissable, especially as the ch...

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