The view from St Chads Church

St Chads church isn't the tallest building in Shrewsbury, but since it sits on a hill overlooking the town it is pretty high. It's definitely one of the defining monuments in the skyline, visible from a lot of my rooftop photographs, behind the clocktower. It may be the highest part of Shrewsbury I've ever been to, but it's always been difficult to tell whether the clocktower or St Chads is higher, even from the top of both. And I have covered both, as we'll see in a future blog. Chronologically St Chads came first though. You may remember the Music Hall entry did depict the St Chads tower with scaffolding around the base?

Well I observed the progress and made my plans. I wanted to see just how high the scaffolding would go, and sure enough it eventually consumed the tower. My group were scattered to their own individual paths by this point, but this was St Chads Church. We all knew that even if we never explored again, together or individually, to say that we conquered St Chads would be the ultimate prize. And so the group came back together. And we actually went up more than once- the first when the scaffolding was a storey or so from the top, as a precaution in case they didn't make it go any higher, and then a second time when it did go higher.

Note- The group I explore with have a strict policy of leaving everything as it was, not vandalizing or stealing, and not exploring or violating any residential properties, nor do we force entry, merely utilize existing openings. Any entry on the blog that does detail a means of access does so under the assumption that the means of access can no longer be reached. Never would we reveal an existing opening over the internet, for fear of negative consequences against the property.

 In this case we simply climbed the church tower for an amazing view. For those wondering about navigation, the photographs are arranged in a clockwise order over Shrewsbury, from the Quarry park to the clocktower.
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There in the distance Shrewsbury clocktower was similarly covered in scaffolding, albeit only partially.
That was to be our next target.