About The Old Rectory Estate, Wheathill, Shropshire
The site of the Old Rectory would have been in use from when the Holy Trinity Church at Wheathill was built in the 12th Century, to accommodate the rectors who looked after the parish. In the Old Rectory gardens close to the coach house, there are signs of an earlier building with a door and window in an old wall. These are believed to be fragments of an older rectory dating back to the 12th Century.
The present-day house dates back to the 15th/16th Century and extended in the 19th Century into what is now a Georgian Rectory.
It is a substantial Georgian building with the 19th-century additions constructed around the time of Rev. John Churton’s residency. The Reverend was a man of means who had married into the very wealthy and well-known Holland family. His stained glass memorial window in the Church betokens prosperity, so it is not surprising to see such a large, solid, typical Gentleman’s house of that period. Everything is large, large rooms, a large cellar, and a very large garden, all betoken wealth and standing for the Vicar and the prosperity of the Church at the time, and an abundance of servants, of course.
The Rectory has been a private residence since the passing of Rev. Nesbitt in 1948, and since then, Wheathill has had no resident Minister.