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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Overview
- 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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- 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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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 ANDREW (UNITED REFORM) AND CHURCH HALL ADJOINING, MONTPELLIER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses Gloucestershire, (1986), 78
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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