Remains of Former Church of St Peter Including Tower and Porch
REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER INCLUDING TOWER AND PORCH, PETER'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305482
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Former Church of St Peter Including Tower and Porch
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER INCLUDING TOWER AND PORCH, PETER'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305482
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Former Church of St Peter Including Tower and Porch
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER INCLUDING TOWER AND PORCH, PETER'S 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:
- REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER INCLUDING TOWER AND PORCH, PETER'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frocester
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 77105 03270
Details
SO 70 SE FROCESTER PETER'S STREET (west side)
1/116 Remains of former Church of St Peter including tower and porch
GV II
Remains of former parish church. Medieval with C15 porch, tower rebuilt 1849 by Francis Niblett. Random rubble limestone base walls; ashlar porch with plain tile roof. Coursed rubble limestone tower with ashlar spire. Outline of church retained in low walls; south porch and north tower surviving. Tower: 2-stage with narrow trefoil side windows and moulded pointed north doorway. Projecting stair turret on west side with blocked doorway. Two- light lancet belfry openings with stone louvres. Broach spire with lucarnes to cardinal faces. Bold stone finial with weathercock. Parapet gabled south porch with 4-light side windows having central king mullion. Diagonal buttresses to front wall with plain pointed archway. Wagon roof internally. C20 coping to cut-down church walls. Gravel surface within . Church demolished in 1952, stone being used to build Wycliffe College chapel in Stonehouse. (N.M. Herbert, 'Frocester' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 170-178; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976)
Listing NGR: SO7710503270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132910
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 170-78
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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