CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING, MONTPELLIER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387324
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING, MONTPELLIER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387324
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING, MONTPELLIER STREET

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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:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING, MONTPELLIER STREET

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94485 22009

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9422NW MONTPELLIER STREET 630-1/12/544 (West side) 14/12/83 Church of St Andrew (United Reform) and Church Hall adjoining

GV II

Church and church hall. 1885-6. For the Congregation from 'Cheltenham Chapel' (Presbyterian). Architect, Thomas Arnold; builder, William Jones. Rusticated stone with plain tile roof; interior of gault brick with ashlar and red brick dressings. Gothic Revival in Early English style with plate tracery. PLAN: 3-bay nave with transepts, 1-shallow-bay chancel and 3-stage, north-west tower with octagonal spire. EXTERIOR: nave has 2-light windows with Decorated-type tracery to heads. Gabled roof dormers. Transepts have 2 cusped lights and rose window to gable. Entrance to west end: steps to double, panelled doors with tooled frieze and carved foliage in tympanum within surround with 2 orders of arches on slender columns with foliate caps. To wither side at west end are single lights with quatrefoils to heads, to next stage a 4-light, pointed window and quatrefoil at apex of gable. Tower breaks forwards, buttresses with off-sets; pair of windows at ground floor, first stage has cusped light, 2-light window to second stage and quatrefoil above. Church hall across east end of Church has two 2-light lancet windows and entrance, panelled double doors in surround with one order of arches. INTERIOR: aisleless nave and chancel. Balcony to west end has pierced parapet. Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on corbel columns with foliate capitals. Hammer-beam roof with decorated arch braces. West gallery with a pierced front. White marble tablets, by DA Bond and Lewis of Cheltenham. Church hall: simple roof on pilasters with carved capitals. The Church spire makes a good contribution to the townscape of the area and forms an eye-catcher for Queen's Circus (qv). (RCHME: Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 78; Sladen T: Notes: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SO9448121997

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Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses Gloucestershire, (1986), 78

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