Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE PLAIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340396
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE PLAIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340396
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE PLAIN
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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 ST PAUL, THE PLAIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whiteshill and Ruscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84076 06816
Details
SO 80 NW WHITESHILL THE PLAIN (east side)
3/227 Church of St Paul
II
Parish church. 1839-41 by Thomas Foster of Bristol; transepts added 1882. Ashlar limestone; concrete tile roof. Nave with apsed chancel and west tower; north and south transepts. Neo- Norman style. Nave and transept walls divided by pilaster buttresses, nave with 3 round arched windows and linking hoodmould, west bay to each side with false doorway, moulded and round-arched with attached jamb shafts having scalloped capitals, blank tympanum; Lombard frieze, with carved heads to west bay. Parapet gabled ends to transepts with Norman style triplets, round window above. Apsed east end with pilasters, small round arched windows and plainer version of frieze. Square west tower with moulded round arched west doorway and tall round arched window above. Triple arcade to belfry with small openings having stone louvres; 2 corbelled string courses and crenellated parapet. Interior: plain wide nave with 6-bay trussed roof. Tall round tower arch. Two-bay round arched arcades to transepts, south with c1938 glazed screen by Peter Waals. Plain moulded round chancel arch above raised choir with tiled floor and brass choir rail. Shouldered arch to raised pulpit to left of chancel arch, octagonal Norman style pulpit front. Arcaded apse with murals by Emily and Rose Stanton, completed 1905. C19 pews with Norman style fronts. Much stained glass - mostly late C19. (N.M. Herbert, 'Stroud' in V.C.H. Glos xi, 1976, pp. 99-145; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO8407606816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132786
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 99-145
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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