Edwin Hugh Shellard (usually known as E. H. Shellard) was an English architect who worked from an office in Manchester, and who flourished between 1844 and 1864. Most of his output was in the design of churches in Northwest England, and he was successful in gaining at least 13 contracts for Commissioners' churches. The Commissioners' churches in the list are denoted by †.
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Grade II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. | |
Grade II | Buildings of national importance and special interest. | |
Name | Location | Image | Date | Notes | Grade | |
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St Peter's Church † | Blackley, Greater Manchester 53.5235°N -2.218°W | 1844–45 | A Commissioners' church in Gothic Revival style, enlarged in 1880. | |||
St James' Church | Whitfield, Glossop, Derbyshire 53.4387°N -1.9528°W | 1844–46 | A Gothic Revival church, later extended. | |||
St Thomas' Church | Biggin, Derbyshire 53.1311°N -1.7708°W | 1844–48 | Gothic Revival church in limestone with grindstone dressings. It has a west tower. | |||
St Thomas' Church † | Lees, Oldham, Greater Manchester 53.5367°N -2.0727°W | 1844–48 | A Commissioners' church. The tower was added in 1885. | |||
St John's Church † | Failsworth, Greater Manchester 53.5118°N -2.1545°W | 1845–46 | A Gothic Revival Commissioners' church with a west steeple. Tower added 1878; restored during the 20th century. | |||
St Stephen's Church † | Audenshaw, Greater Manchester 53.4749°N -2.1153°W | 1845–47 | Gothic Revival with a tower. Chancel added 1900. | |||
St Mary's Church † | Droylsden, Greater Manchester 53.4799°N -2.1432°W | 1846–48 | Gothic Revival with a tower and spire. | |||
St John's Church † | Shuttleworth, Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester 53.6556°N -2.3031°W | 1847 | Gothic Revival with bell turrets. | |||
St Mark's Church † | Bredbury, Greater Manchester 53.4241°N -2.105°W | 1847–48 | Gothic Revival with a west tower. | |||
Holy Trinity Church † | Coldhurst, Oldham, Greater Manchester 53.5501°N -2.1173°W | 1847–48 | Gothic Revival with a bell tower. Enlarged 1887–91. | |||
St John the Evangelist's Church † | Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester 53.5002°N -2.0813°W | 1847–49 | Gothic Revival with a bell turret. Enlarged in 1862. | |||
St John's Church | Lytham St Annes, Lancashire 53.7369°N -2.9549°W | 1848–49 | A church in Early English style; extended by Shellard in 1856–57. | |||
St Matthew's Church | Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester 53.5568°N -2.1516°W | 1848–57 | Gothic Revival church with a steeple added in 1877. | |||
St John the Evangelist's Church | Ashton Hayes, Cheshire 53.223°N -2.7397°W | 1849 | A Gothic Revival church. Alterations were made in 1900 by Douglas and Minshull, and in 1932 by Theodore Fyfe. | |||
St John the Baptist's Church † | Godley, Greater Manchester 53.4549°N -2.0644°W | 1849 | Gothic Revival style. West tower added 1878. | |||
Thorncliffe Hall | Hollingworth, Tameside, Greater Manchester | c. 1850 | A country house remodelled in Neo-Jacobean style; used as his own residence. | |||
St Thomas' Church † | Helmshore, Lancashire 53.6872°N -2.3302°W | 1850–51 | Gothic Revival with west tower. | |||
Christ Church | Pennington, Leigh, Greater Manchester 53.4913°N -2.5226°W | 1850–54 | Gothic Revival with west tower. | |||
All Saints Church | Glazebury, Warrington, Cheshire 53.4696°N -2.4952°W | 1851 | A small church with a bellcote and without aisles. | |||
St Mark's Church † | Hulme, Greater Manchester | 1851–52 | Gothic Revival. Demolished. | |||
Holy Trinity Church | Stalybridge, Tameside, Greater Manchester 53.4826°N -2.0557°W | 1851–52 | A church with a clerestory and west tower. | |||
St Michael's Church | Weeton, Lancashire 53.7996°N -2.9358°W | 1852 | Enlarged a church built in 1843, extending the west end. | |||
St Mary's Church | Preston, Lancashire 53.7615°N -2.6866°W | 1852–53 | Shellard added a chancel and transepts in similar style to a church built in 1836–38, which is in Romanesque Revival style. Since converted into a conservation centre. | |||
Big School | Rossall School, Lancashire | 1852–53 | A hall flanked by two-storey wings, one of which has a crenellated tower. | |||
St John's Church | Preston, Lancashire 53.7585°N -2.6962°W | 1853–55 | Replacing an earlier church on the site, this is in Decorated style with a west steeple, and is considered to be Shellard's finest work. | |||
St Michael and All Angels Church | Mottram in Longdendale, Tameside, Greater Manchester 53.4544°N -2.0101°W | 1854–55 | Shellard made alterations to a church dating from the 15th century, which included raising the roof, changing the windows in the clerestory, and remodelling the interior of the church. | |||
St Paul's Church † | Pendleton, Salford, Greater Manchester 53.4875°N -2.2842°W | 1855–56 | Gothic Revival with a bell turret. The church was reordered in the 1970s by Stephen Dykes Bower | |||
Steeple of St George's Church | Charlestown, Salford, Greater Manchester 53.4972°N -2.2824°W | 1858 | Only the steeple remains of this church. | |||
St Luke's Church | Preston, Lancashire 53.7661°N -2.6835°W | 1858–59 | Converted for residential use in the late 20th century. | |||
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