Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, BARTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271571
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, BARTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271571
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, BARTON 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:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, BARTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83692 18137
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8318SE BARTON STREET 844-1/13/6 (North side) 04/11/81 Church of All Saints
II
Parish church. 1874-5, altered 1887. By Sir George Gilbert Scott, for the Gloucester and Bristol Church Building Association. Ashlar, tiled roofs with coped gables. Middle Pointed style. Aisled nave with clerestory of five bays and south porch; chancel with south aisle re-ordered later as chapel, the original vestry on north side altered to house organ, and another vestry added in 1887. EXTERIOR: west gable-end wall has a large six-light window with foiled geometrical tracery between flanking buttresses, a three-light window with similar tracery in the end wall of each aisle. The gabled south porch, projecting from the west bay of the south aisle, has a cusped arched doorway within a moulded frame; otherwise in each bay of the south aisle a three-light window with reticulated tracery flanked by offset buttresses; lean-to roofs over the aisles behind coped parapets above a continuous string course; in the clerestory square windows with varied patterns of tracery. The slightly lower chancel has a coped east gable-end wall which contains a large seven-light window with foiled geometrical tracery between flanking offset buttresses capped by gablets, and at the east end on the south side a two-light window with reticulated tracery. The south chapel has a three-light window with foiled intersecting tracery in the coped gable east wall and a pair of two-light windows with segmental arched heads in the south wall. INTERIOR: nave arcades with octagonal piers and moulded bases and caps, shallow pointed arches to the clerestory windows; the inner order of the moulded chancel arch is supported on corbels; on the west side of the chancel arch and supported on corbels a decorated rood beam with the figures of Christ on the Cross and the two Marys. In the sanctuary a finely carved sedilia; between the chancel and the south chapel, a painted screen with serpentine curves designed by J Coates-Carter and sculpted by AP Frith c1920. Good later C19 furnishings throughout including font, painted organ case and pews. STAINED GLASS: by Clayton and Bell c1875 in the east window, in another window in the chancel, and in three windows in the
south aisle. HISTORY: considered by Verey to be the "finest C19 church in Gloucester", notable for the overall unity in the design of the church and its fittings. The building was constructed with funds from subscribers and a benefaction from the family of Rev.Thomas Hedley. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 229; VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 293-294).
Listing NGR: SO8369218137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 229
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1988), 293-294
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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