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All Saints Church,
2 Church Hill,
Bisley, 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.

All Saints Church is a Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details.

Kelly's Directory of 1923 describes "Bisley-with Lypiatt" as a township and parish, 3½ miles east-by-north from Brimscombe station on the Swindon, Stroud and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway, and 4 east from Stroud. The original parish of Bisley included the villages of Bussage, Chalford, Oakridge and France Lynch, but in 1894, Chalford was constituted a civil parish, to include the villages of Bussage and France Lynch.

The church of All Saints is described as a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of 3 bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with spire, containing a clock and 8 bells. The parish records date from 1547, and in 1923 the living was a vicarage in the gift of the Lord Chancellor; and had been held since 1903 by the Rev. William James Clay B.A. of University College, Durham.

Kelly also mentions the court house had a news room, supplied with daily papers and periodicals, to which a library was attached, having about 100 volumes.

At that time, Bisley included the hamlets of Eastcombe, 1½ miles south-west, Elcomb, 2 miles north-west, and Througham, 2 miles north-east. Until 1882, the parish also included the (detached) tithing of Bidfield, but this was transferred to Miserden by the "Divided Parish Act" of that year.

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 SO9037005927. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• All Saints Church, Bisley shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Bisley shown on a Google Map.
• Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
• Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
• 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 Bisley, 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.