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St Giles's Church,
The Street,
Uley, 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 before 1668, and we understand it is still open.

Kelly's Directory of 1923 describes Uley as "shut in by hills on all sides, except the west; many springs take their rise in these hills and form the little stream called the Ewelem, which, flowing on to Dursley, is augmented by the waters of the Broadwell, and afterwards becomes the Cam".

The present St Giles's Church occupies a vantage point on the hillside, on the west side of "The Street", a short distance from the Village Green. It is a Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details. It is the work of S.S. Tevlon, and dates from 1857-58.

This is known to have been a replacement for an earlier church, but apart from a few monuments preserved inside the tower, nothing from the original building survives. Less than forty years after its replacement however, it was already sadly missed. This is fortunate for us today, as two articles describing the original building, and expressing regret at its demise were published by Phillimore, in volume 5 of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries (1894).

A copy of these articles - The Old St Giles Church, Uley - is available on Stuart Flight's "Glosgen" website.

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 ST7912398574. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• St Giles's Church, Uley shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Uley 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 Uley, 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)
• Stuart Flight's webpages of The Old St Giles Church, Uley (null) (verified 2018-11-08)

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.