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Latitude: 51.7031 / 51°42'11"N
Longitude: -1.78 / 1°46'47"W
OS Eastings: 415301
OS Northings: 200502
OS Grid: SP153005
Mapcode National: GBR 4SQ.0V7
Mapcode Global: VHB2V.3GC9
Plus Code: 9C3WP63C+62
Entry Name: Presbytery of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
Listing Date: 13 September 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1391076
English Heritage Legacy ID: 492565
ID on this website: 101391076
Location: Horcott, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, GL7
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold
Civil Parish: Fairford
Built-Up Area: Fairford
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: South Cotswold Team Ministry
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
FAIRFORD
1176/1/10007 HORCOTT
13-SEP-04 Presbytery of Church of St Thomas of C
anterbury
GV II
Presbytery. Circa 1865; by Benjamin Bucknall; extended late C20. Coursed limestone with freestone dressings. Steeply-pitched clay plain tile roof with stone-coped gable ends with finials and large shaped kneelers. Stone axial and corbelled gable-end stacks with weathered caps.
PLAN: 3-room plan with entrance and projecting stair tower to left of centre; linked at left end to Church of St Thomas of Canterbury by the church vestry. Late C20 single storey extension at rear.
High Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window front with large stone cross-mullion-transon windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches; large gabled stair tower to left of centre with 2-light stone mullion window with statue niche above and stone cross at apex of gable. To left a shouldered arch doorway with a plank door with wrought-iron strap hinges. Right-hand return gable-end has similar 2-light ground floor window and 3-light window to first floor, both with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. At rear a small gabled stone dormer at eaves level with corbelled kneelers and finial; late C20 single-storey extension with flat roof.
INTERIOR: Stone newel stairs. Windows have central mullions with corbels at top supporting the ceiling beams.
A good example of a High Victorian Gothic style presbytery.
SOURCE: Barton, Richard; Guide to Church of St Thomas of Canterbury; April 2003.
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