It was a difficult time for all dissenters,   and after the first meetings held in peoples homes,   notably Mrs Hunt and Mary Jukes,  the  Church was established on the site it is on today.  The congregation were principally Presbyterians,   until the retirement of Job Orton,   a much admired and revered Minister and one of the Founders of the Shrewsbury Infirmary.   The congregation then had the difficult job of appointing his successor,  and as they could not agree it  was decided that those with Presbyterian leanings should form a new Church on Swan Hill,  this was an amicable arrangement and the people who eventually became Unitarians helped with the funding of the new building.
   There have been several notable people connected with our Church and their plaques on our walls show how much their services were valued,  especially Mrs Louisa Myers who worked hard with the Sunday School among other things.   More glamorous was Samuel Taylor Coleridge,  who applied for the Ministry and was committed to taking 3 Services,  and according to William Hazlitt Jr,  it was the best Service he ever heard,   he walked, on a January day, from Wem to hear him. And later Coleridge walked to Wem to visit the Hazlitts, where Mr Hazlitt Snr was Unitarian Minister for the town.
   However Coleridge was tempted away from the Ministry by Tom and Josh Wedgwood who offered him an annuity of £150 p.a to devote his time to writing and poetry.
   In the time of  Rev. George Case the Darwin family attended the Church and Charles and his sisters also went to Dr. Case’s