Christ Church and Adjacent Church Hall
CHRIST CHURCH AND ADJACENT CHURCH HALL, MALVERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1103838
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church and Adjacent Church Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH AND ADJACENT CHURCH HALL, MALVERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1103838
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church and Adjacent Church Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH AND ADJACENT CHURCH HALL, MALVERN ROAD
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.
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH AND ADJACENT CHURCH HALL, MALVERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 93996 22280
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SW MALVERN ROAD 630-1/12/513 (East side) 12/03/55 Christ Church and adjacent Church Hall
GV II*
Church and Church Hall. 1837-40 with later additions and alterations. Architects: RW and C Jearrad. Builders: Thomas Newton, Solomon Sims and Joseph Puzey. Apse added and interior remodelled 1888-93 by JH Middleton, HA Prothero and Phillot with 'Byzantine' wall decoration by Sir William Richmond and J Eadie Reid. Stained glass by Lavers, Barrand and Westlake, and Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Monuments mostly by Lewis of Cheltenham. Restored by RW Paterson, 1956. Ashlar over brick with slate roof. PLAN: Regency Gothic in Early English style with a tall Perpendicular-type West tower symmetrically placed in the centre of an elaborately gabled west end with north and south porches, aisled nave, a single preaching box with north and south transepts and apsidal sanctuary; Classicized interior and Byzantine-style decorations to apse. Church Hall attached to south. EXTERIOR: west end: chamfered plinth, buttresses; stepped gabled buttresses to ends and centre with pinnacles, both porches and centre are gabled; outer entrances, pointed doorways have paired plank doors with pilaster between and cusped heads with quatrefoil to apex, 2 orders of roll-moulded arches and hoodmould; central stepped 3-lancet-light window with pilasters between and hollow-chamfer to head; above a clock to gable. Tower enriched with carved decoration, band, two 2-light belfry openings with Perpendicular-type tracery above, pierced parapet; octagonal turrets surmounted by finials with pinnacles. Aisles have tall 2-light lancet windows. Church Hall is single-storey with gable-facing to slightly projecting central gable in 3-bay facade. Hood moulds over chamfered lancets, except stepped 3-light Early English window to centre, with moulded architraves and stylised Gothic carving to capitals set on engaged shafts. Plain but similar 3-light window to rear. INTERIOR: has 1837-40 gallery to 3 sides, 2 unclad iron stanchions with 'Gothic' capitals survive in their original form at the west end, those to both sides are Doric, with plinths (the iron stanchions are within); box pews remain to upper stage. Otherwise virtually all 1888-9, with exception of
1865 font. Apse has 2 arches with pilasters with arabesque ornament, tempera frescoes with Christ, the Apostles, St Michael and St George to the dome and the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Presentation to the walls and Resurrection to the reredos. Flat ceiling with oak panels on paired colonnette corbels to transepts. Porches each have open-well staircase with alternate stick and ornate balusters and wreathed handrail; north porch has further spiral staircase. Ornate screen to choir. Coloured marble pulpit. Many wall tablets to members of the military who had served in India and the East India Company who retired to Cheltenham, including James Webster (d.1858) of Hatherley Court, Hatherley Road (qv) also Richard Crosier Sherwood (d.1850) of Suffolk Lawn. Interior of Church Hall not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ashlar wall with pointed arch attached to Church Hall on south. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a proprietary chapel to accommodate about 2,000 in anticipation of the expansion of the Lansdown Estate. The architects, RW and C Jearrad were building the Queen's Hotel, Promenade (qv) concurrently. The distinctive and unusual proportions have attracted the attention of many architectural writers: Sir John Betjeman wrote that this is, 'one of the most successful buildings in Cheltenham externally.' (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 28,69; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 28-29; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 32; Whiting R: Christ Church, Cheltenham 1840-1990: 1990-; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 127-28; Sladen T: Notes: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SO9399922266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 28-69
Blake, S, Cheltenhams Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883, (1979), 28-29
Whiting, R, Christ Church, Cheltenham 1840-1990, (1990)
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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