Church of the Holy Cross
CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091064
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091064
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Owlpen
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7998598402
Details
ST 79 NE OWLPEN OWLPEN VILLAGE
Church of the Holy Cross
5/352
30.6.61
GV II
Parish church. 1828-30 by Samuel Manning; altered 1874-5 by J.P.
St Aubyn. Tower rebuilt 1912. Coursed and dressed limestone;
stone slate roof. Wide aisleless nave, chancel, west tower and
south porch. Moulded pointed arched south doorway, timber framed
porch dated 1897 and added for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee,
this having openwork carved barge boards and traceried windows.
Two 3-light pointed nave windows to right with Decorated tracery;
one similar window on north side. Polygonal east end to chancel
with diagonal buttresses; single-light window with quatrefoil
tracery to each side. Gabled north vestry. Two-stage tower with
diagonal offset west buttresses, 2-light belfry openings;
crenellated parapet.
Interior: wide nave with coved plaster ceiling; at centre a
timber ribbed grille with carved timber bosses. Moulded pointed
tower arch and wider chancel arch with carved screen. Elaborately
decorated chancel, walls covered with inlaid mosaics by Powell of
Whitefriars Glass Works, alabaster reredos, encaustic tiled floor
and richly painted arched braced collar truss roof with 2 tiers of
windbracing, all of 1887. Trefoil rere-arches to windows. Trefoil
arched aumbry recess and sedile with adjoining piscina recess.
Interior of tower treated as baptistery, walls also decorated by
Powell mosaics, including mother-of-pearl inlay to splayed window
jambs, this added 1913. Norman font bowl on later base.
Monuments, some dating from early C19, on north wall of nave. Good
stained glass, much of c1887 by Powell. Other nave windows by
Heaton, Butler and Bayne. A modest church with good late Victorian
and Edwardian interior, in a prominent position and grouping well
with Owlpen Manor (q.v.).
(C.N. Mander, Church Guide, 1980; D. Verey, Cotswold Churches,
1976 and Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7998598402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Mander, C N, Church Guide to Church of the Holy Cross, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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