History

You can find out more about our history on our virtual tour on the Geotourist website here (click on the 'Explore At Home' button to start the tour).  

We have already done some research!! Did you know for instance.....

• Buildwas Church was once part of Buildwas Abbey?
• Some of the families buried in Buildwas Church have close connections with Abraham Darby of Coalbrookdale?
• For a short time, Buildwas Church was the ‘Gretna Green’ of Shropshire because young couples could easily get married there?
• That we have some rare cast iron headstones?
• That many of the people buried in our churchyard in the 17th century had to be buried in woollen clothing due to an Act of Parliament?
• We have a Commonwealth War Grave of a soldier from the 1st World War and that Buildwas Academy pupils have been researching his life?
• That in 1917, one of the mourners died during a funeral service?

We are finding out more fascinating facts all the time!