TOWER AND SPIRE, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1299161
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: TOWER AND SPIRE, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: TOWER AND SPIRE, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1299161
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: TOWER AND SPIRE, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER AND SPIRE, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER AND SPIRE, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Westbury-on-Severn
National Grid Reference:: SO 71714 13918

Details

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/216 Tower and spire, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

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Detached Church tower and spire: late C13 tower, C14 spire; thin grey rubble walls with larger red-brown quoins: shingled spire. Square. Battered plinth with roll moulding to north face; square-set corner buttresses on left, octagonal stair turret on right with pilasters to north and west faces. 2-light geometric tracery window to upper level, with circular clock face above: lancet to stair turret to right. Slight eaves to broached octagonal spire: 2-light, square openings with timber louvres at low level, lean-to roofs. Ball finial and weathercock. East face has no plinth; square-set corner buttresses; chamfered, 2-centred arched opening to double boarded doors. Above 2 creasings for roof to demolished chapel: lancet window between with further lancet above with 2 stone louvres. Internally heavy timber beams carry floor over. Detached from church, (q.v.). Medieval chapel to east of spire re-roofed 1779, used as school 1710-1849, demolished 1862. Spire repaired with timber from casks in 1680. (Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, Vol. X, 1972; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970).

Listing NGR: SO7171313920

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Legacy System number:: 354297
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.