PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1340962
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1340962
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Cam
National Grid Reference:: ST 75736 99343

Details

ST 79 NE CAM CHURCH ROAD 4/8 (north side) 30.6.61 Parish Church of St George

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Anglican parish church. Mainly mid C14, but chancel arch C13, north aisle C15; porch restored 1836-52 and chancel 1845, both by George Madan, the incumbent. Cotswold limestone but clearstorey wall in marlstone; roofs lead except stone slate to chancel. West tower, part, north and south aisles, 2-storey south porch chancel. Tower in four stages plus blank panelled crenellation and three diagonal pinnacles, diagonal buttresses becoming square clamp, above and below first string course at each corner are fine paired corbel heads or animal carvings; nave clearstorey with four 2-light perpendicular lights and pierced parapet over string course with ball-flower, south aisle with 2-light restored C14 windows and unpierced parapet. Chancel with 2-light C14 windows and unpierced parapet. Chancel with 2-light C14 windows and parapet string course with ball-flower. At each end of north aisle 3-light traceried window with part-crenellated transome north aisle walling worn marlstone to eaves, no parapet blocked north door. Interior: vaulted tower, quadripartite with ridge ribs, modern glazed screen to tower arch. 4-bay nave, heavy octagonal piers on plinth, simple bell capitals, heavy double chamfer arches, dying into wall, continuous string over. Arch-braced low-pitch boarded ceiling; lean-to north aisle with heavy central purlin, 5-bay, 3 arch braces brought down to low corbels; blocked north door not aligned with south door. South aisle, 4-bay, C19 roof structure. Chancel arch has twin north, and triple, south cusped openings at low level, and arch mould stopped to octagonal cap on short triple shafts with keeled profile, springing from leaf-carved brackets. Chancel rebuilt C19 has pointed barrel roof with painted ribs. Floors generally stone, except under pews, and probably C19 tile to chancel, carpetted at time of survey. Good Jacobean pulpit on chancel north respond; C13 font, with 3 sets of dog-tooth ornament on C19 base; carved oak reredos, The Last Supper. East window, south aisle, Clayton and Bell.

The church is reputed to have been rebuilt in c1340 by Lord Berkeley, following the murder of Edward II.

See: David Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds (B/E), 1970.

Listing NGR: ST7573399343

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Legacy System number:: 131408
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

Legal

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