Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386790
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386790
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH ROAD
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.
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 MARK, CHURCH ROAD
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 92837 22014
Details
SO 92 SW; 630-1/1/241
CHELTENHAM,
CHURCH ROAD (North-West side),
Church of St Mark
(Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD Parish Church of St Mark)
14/12/83
GV
II
Parish church. 1860-66, with transepts of 1888. Architect,
John Middleton, his earliest in Cheltenham; builder, John
Alcock, with tower-spire built by Messers Wingate and Sons of
Gloucester. Cost £3,540. Drilled Cotswold stone with Bath
stone quoins and dressings, Forest of Dean stone forming
alternating polychromy in voussoirs; red tile roof. Gothic
Revival, Decorated style.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: 5-bay aisled nave with double transepts and
2-bay chancel; 3-stage tower to west with corner pinnacles and
broach spire. Central gabled south porch. Circular clerestory
windows with cusped and foiled tracery. Angle buttresses.
Chancel has carved head-stops to drips and carved decoration
to buttresses.
INTERIOR: Decorated style interior with tall chancel arch and
west tower arch, stone pulpit with naturalistic carving,
medievalising red/buff tiles in the sanctuary, choir stalls,
font with naturalistic carving and benches in the nave. Raked
gallery in the west tower. The east window (c1880) has glass
by Kempe.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Middleton designed several churches in
Cheltenham including All Saints, All Saints Road (qv); St
Philip and St James, Gratton Road (qv); St Stephen, St
Stephen's Road (qv); and Holy Apostles, London Road, Charlton
Kings (qv).
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham:
1993-: 116; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD
773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 36-7; Sladen T: Notes: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SO9283722014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474189
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 116
Blake, S, Cheltenhams Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883, (1979), 36-37
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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