Chapel to former St Paul's College

Chapel to former St Paul's College, University of Gloucestershire, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387997
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: Chapel to former St Paul's College
Statutory Address:: Chapel to former St Paul's College, University of Gloucestershire, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387997
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: Chapel to former St Paul's College
Statutory Address 1:: Chapel to former St Paul's College, University of Gloucestershire, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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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:: Chapel to former St Paul's College, University of Gloucestershire, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AT

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 94687 23075

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 March 2023 to correct the name and amend the description.

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CHELTENHAM SWINDON ROAD (north side) University of Gloucestershire Chapel to former St Paul's College

(Formerly listed as Former Chapel to St Paul's College, previously listed as Chapel to St Paul's College, SWINDON ROAD)

GV II Chapel to former St Paul's College (qv). 1909-10 by Hodgson Fowler. Coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. Large eight-bay nave and small two-bay chancel, in the Eton and Kings Perpendicular-style tradition.

EXTERIOR: seven-light east window, two-light chancel windows and five-light nave windows, with cinquefoil heads and panel tracery, all bays articulated by tall offset buttresses; recessed entrance bay at west end of south side has crocketed ogee-arched doorway; crenellated turret at south-west corner, with rose window in west gable above two two-light windows which are set above mullioned cinquefoil-headed windows lighting narthex.

INTERIOR: consistent treatment to rerearches throughout, with Perpendicular shafts to moulded arches and to arch braced supports of fine roof in late medieval tradition, with openwork spandrels and arch bracing to collars and purlins. Glass by Morris and Co., 1934-5, and original fittings included painted reredos and fine west screen, with integral carved stalls, cinquefoil-headed tracery and coving to balcony area surmounted by organ.

A consistent design of high quality in the Eton and King's tradition, grouping with the fine College (qv) by Daukes.

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Legacy System number:: 475993
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.