Church of Christ Church With Railings
CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH WITH RAILINGS, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305623
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Christ Church With Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH WITH RAILINGS, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305623
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Christ Church With Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH WITH RAILINGS, LONDON ROAD
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 CHRIST CHURCH WITH RAILINGS, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 89191 02539
Details
SO 8802-8902 CHALFORD LONDON ROAD (north side)
13/66 Church of Christ Church with railings 28.6.60
GV II
Former chapel of ease, now parish church. 1725, enlarged 1841 by T. Foster of Bristol; 1857 alterations by F.T. Gompertz, further 1890 alterations by B. Edmund Ferrey. Ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; decorative plain tile roof. Nave with north aisle, west tower and 2 south porches; chancel with north vestry. Neo- Norman style. Five tall Norman style round arched nave windows to south side with linking string course at arch springing level; sill-level string course. Two parapet gabled porches with Norman archways. Diagonal offset buttresses to ends of nave. Eight transverse gables to north aisle, 7 with round arched window containing coloured glass. Three-stage west tower with very squat broach tile-hung spire. Norman style arch to each tower stage, belfry openings being 2-light. Norman style east triplet window to small chancel, round window above. Interior: broad nave with 7-bay round arched north arcade with tall Roman Doric columns; transverse aisle tunnel vault. Timber boarded nave roof with compartment ribs and coved cornice. Three- centred chancel arch. Much panelling and fittings by Sapperton Arts and Crafts group. Openwork choir screen and organ loft panelling by Norman Jewson. Fine lectern with ivory and mother-of- pearl inlay by Peter Waals. Circular stone font with fish carving by William Simmonds has tall timber cover by Norman Jewson with silverwork by George Hart. Stained glass to south nave windows by Edward R. Payne, 1951. Wall monument with figure of mourner and urn to John William Jones, died 1860. South frontage has iron railings, principal posts with urn finials. Residents of Chalford erected a 'neat chapel' in 1725, which after considerable enlargement became a district church in 1842. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; M.A. Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, 1937; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO8919102539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132860
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rudd, MA, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, (1935)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 4-40
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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