Converting a former Methodist church into luxury apartments

The Victorian church was not listed, although sat within the Shrewsbury Town Conservation Area and provided a fine façade onto St John’s Hill, making a strong contribution to the streetscape. 

The site is landlocked to the rear, with rights of privacy and light accrued to adjacent buildings and so it was not possible to insert new windows in the external walls. Light instead is provided for the new apartments by the creation of an internal courtyard in the rear part of the former nave.

Numerous interior features including the existing roof structure have been retained inside the church to form unique spaces and individual apartments while beyond the original church walls a contemporary architectural intervention contrasts with the character of the church.

In the main circulation space is a walnut staircase that rises up to look out over the new courtyard and pool.