Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, Tewkesbury Road, GL51 9AH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1388006
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Tewkesbury Road, GL51 9AH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1388006
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Tewkesbury Road, GL51 9AH
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Tewkesbury Road, GL51 9AH
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 93855 23361
Details
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SO92SW
630-1/1/893
CHELTENHAM
TEWKESBURY ROAD (South side)
Church of St Peter
12/03/55
II*
Former Parish church. 1847-8. Architect, SW Daukes; builder, Thomas Haines. West window of 1858, by William Wailes. Cost £4,838. Stone with plain tile roofs. Romanesque style. Cruciform plan with large central dome.
EXTERIOR: tall central crossing tower with circular upper stage and conical roof. Four-bay nave, wide transept, short chancel and apse. Windows: single-light windows with cogged moulding to heads and round-arched hoodmoulds. East end has three tall round-arched lights. Tower has twin belfry openings with central column and round arch, pyramidal roof.
INTERIOR: Norman style with chevron tower arches and dome. Use of semicircular arch bracing to the roof is in harmony with the 'Classical' forms of the Romanesque style used. Galleries in the north and south transepts and to west end supported on wooden columns with scalloped capitals. Neo-Norman plaster-work.
Goodhart-Rendel considered this a 'really a great success'. Teresa Sladen has described this as 'an important early Victorian church on account of its unusual and early use of the Romanesque style, (relating to) indigenous examples such as the Round Church at Cambridge, restored in 1841 and extravagantly praised by The Ecclesiologist'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Daukes took over The Park development from Thomas Billings.
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 119; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 30-31; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 130; Sladen T: Notes: 1995-; Howell P and Sutton I: Faber Guide to Victorian Churches: London: 1989-: 25).
Listing NGR: SO9385523355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476002
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 130
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 119
Blake, S, Cheltenhams Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883, (1979), 30-31
Howell, P, Sutton, I, The Faber Guide to Victorian Churches, (1989), 25
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