St Pauls Bell Tower
ST PAULS BELL TOWER, GLOUCESTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269428
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- St Pauls Bell Tower
- Statutory Address:
- ST PAULS BELL TOWER, GLOUCESTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269428
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- St Pauls Bell Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST PAULS BELL TOWER, GLOUCESTER STREET
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:
- 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.
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