Description

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/216 Tower and spire, Church of
St. Peter and St. Paul

GV 1

Detached Church tower and spire: late C13 tower, C14 spire; thin
grey rubble walls with larger red-brown quoins: shingled spire.
Square. Battered plinth with roll moulding to north face;
square-set corner buttresses on left, octagonal stair turret on
right with pilasters to north and west faces. 2-light geometric
tracery window to upper level, with circular clock face above:
lancet to stair turret to right. Slight eaves to
broached octagonal spire: 2-light, square openings with timber
louvres at low level, lean-to roofs. Ball finial and weathercock.
East face has no plinth; square-set corner buttresses; chamfered,
2-centred arched opening to double boarded doors. Above 2
creasings for roof to demolished chapel: lancet window between
with further lancet above with 2 stone louvres.
Internally heavy timber beams carry floor over. Detached from
church, (q.v.). Medieval chapel to east of spire re-roofed 1779,
used as school 1710-1849, demolished 1862. Spire repaired with
timber from casks in 1680. (Victoria County History,
Gloucestershire, Vol. X, 1972; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale
and the Forest of Dean, 1970).

Listing NGR: SO7171313920

Selected Sources

• Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)
• Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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