CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1101547
Date first listed: 07-Mar-1988
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Gloucestershire
District: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish: Woolaston
National Grid Reference: ST 58676 99343
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
WOOLASTON GENERAL
ST 59 NE
10/252 Church of St Andrew
GV II
Anglican parish church. C12 foundation, but almost entirely now of C19 'restoration'
and extension. Sandstone, concrete tiled roof to coped gables. Original C12
cruciform plan now lost, is nave, south porch, 2-gabled south aisle, chancel, vestry,
north tower (on site of north transept ?). Various windows generally in a C14 style.
Three-stage tower with chamfered offsets, crenellated parapet to low pyramidal roof
and weathervane, two deep buttresses to north side of nave. Outer and inner porch
doorways heavily restored Norman, door has fine decorative C19 strap hinges. At
west end of nave a 3-light window of c1300. Interior, nave with barrel roof, 2-bay
south aisle of 1829, the easternmost bay on site of former south transept, chancel
arch has paired granite columns with foliated caps, chancel roof 2 heavy cusped
King post trusses. Pitch pine pews, octagonal C16 font on Victorian base, C18
pulpit from Claycoton, Northants and screen from Church of the Venerable Bede; one
medieval bell, 2 of C17 and 2 of C18. The church was in the grant of Tintern Abbey
from 1131; major restoration by Henry Morgan of Tidenham in 1859. It stands in
a roughly circular churchyard, suggesting a very early site development.
(VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol X).
Listing NGR: ST5867699343
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 354598
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing