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Shrewsbury Unitarian Church & the Cabinet of Curiosities
Heritage Open Day: The church is on the site of the first dissenting congregation in Shrewsbury, formed after the Great Ejection of 1662. The young Charles Darwin worshipped here with his mother Susannah nee Wedgwood (of the Stoke pottery family). The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge preached a sermon here in 1798 as candidate for the post of minister, as related by William Hazlitt in his essay My First Acquaintance with Poets. A typical dissenting church interior, much of the church was rebuilt in
Thu 10 Sep:1000-1600. Fri 11 Sep:1000-1600. Sat 12 Sep:1000-1600. Sun 13 Sep:1400-1600. Free Entry. For more information and last-minute updates, please visit the Heritage Open Days website
Shrewsbury Unitarian Church, High Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1LR
Thu 10 Sep to Sun 13 Sep 2015
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