St Peter's Church, Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, Church History

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St Peter's Church, Little Rissington

St Peter's Church,
Rissington Road,
Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or had) a graveyard.
Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in the 13th century, and we understand it is still open.

Kelly's Directory of 1923 describes St Peter's Church as "a small building of stone in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing one bell. The two arches separating the nave and north aisles are Norman. The chancel with its eight lancet windows is Early English, and contains a memorial window to the Rev. R. Wilbraham Ford, a former rector, placed there in 1862 by his children. It also retains a piscina and aumbry and a low-side window. The staircase to the rood loft also remains. The remaining windows are Decorated, and the porch and font Perpendicular".
There were two restorations, one in 1850 at the cost of John Bennett esq., its rector at that time, and again in 1883, under the direction of architect Mr. Bassett Smith, of London.
The British Listed Buildings website mentions a monument to Maria, wife of Robert Glyn (d.1682), on the north wall of the chancel; a 19th century monument to Robert le Marchant, former rector, who died in 1915; and a 20th century RAF memorial window, at the west end of the nave.
There may be more information available by by selecting one or more of the accompanying images on the right.

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SP1894019974. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

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Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
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OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Little Rissington, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

Learn more about Buildings of special or historical interest on the British Listed Buildings (null) (verified 2018-09-19)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 25 Mar 2013 at 07:24.

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