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
- List Entry Number:
- 1305482
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER INCLUDING TOWER AND PORCH, PETER'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1305482
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER INCLUDING TOWER AND PORCH, PETER'S STREET
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
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- 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
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