ST PAULS BELL TOWER
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269428
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Statutory Address:
- ST PAULS BELL TOWER, GLOUCESTER STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- ST PAULS BELL TOWER, GLOUCESTER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malmesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93252 87237
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 GLOUCESTER STREET
758-1/4/135 (East side)
18/01/49 St Paul's Bell Tower
GV I
Former church tower. C15. Limestone rubble with ashlar
dressings.
STYLE: Perpendicular Gothic.
PLAN: square plan.
EXTERIOR: in 3 stages divided by drips, with a NW octagonal
stair turret, with clocks beneath a broach spire with 2 tiers
of lucarnes. The E side has C19 angle buttresses to the lower
stages, a 2-centre arched doorway within a blocked arch,
beneath a sloping roof line; the third stage has a 2-light
louvre window. Bottom stage of the N elevation has a blocked
shallow 3-light, 2-centre arch window with Perpendicular
tracery above the transom. Similar W elevation has a 3-light
mullion window to the third stage and a left-hand buttress to
the bottom stage. The S side has a window as the W.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly tower of St Paul's Church, named
1191, on the site of St Aldhelm's monastery church. Nave
collapsed by early C16, used as private house and town hall
until c1623, chancel pulled down 1852. Originally 6-bay nave,
2-bay chancel and N aisle, with the tower at the NW corner.
The arcade built c1250-70 (cf No.11 Gloucester Street, qv).
(Victoria History of the Counties of England: Crowley DA:
Wiltshire: 1991-: 157).
Listing NGR: ST9325487235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460798
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crowley, B A, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1991), 157
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