St Peter & St Paul's Church ("The Pepperpot"), Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, Church History

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St Peter & St Paul's Church ("The Pepperpot"), Upton on Severn

St Peter & St Paul's Church ("The Pepperpot"),
High Street / Church Street,
Upton on Severn, Worcestershire.

Cemeteries

This Church 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 1300, but we understand it was closed in 1878.

The church lies close to the bridge, between the town and the river. Only the tower, built about 1300, now remains of the original building, which (apart from the tower) was rebuilt in 1756-7 by Anthony Keck for the Lord of the Manor, John Martin. The topping to the tower, added at that time, is a lantern, with octagonal base, known locally as "The Pepperpot". The base of the tower was used for a time as the Tourist Information Centre, but is now a Heritage Centre.
Note that from 1st January 1866, all burials would have taken place in the Rectory Road Cemetery, apart from 'a few in 1867 and 1868, which are recorded as being in a "vault in Old Churchyard" or "brick grave in Old Churchyard"'. [Sources: Mike Salter, The Old Parish Churches of Worcestershire (1995), and the (very comprehensive) Upton on Severn, Worcestershire website]

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 was located at OS grid reference SO8515340690. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

St Peter & St Paul's Church ("The Pepperpot"), Upton on Severn shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Upton on Severn 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 Upton on Severn, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

All you want to know about Upton on Severn, Worcestershire (null) (verified 2018-12-06)

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 6 Dec 2018 at 09:22.

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This Report was created 19 Jan 2025 - 19:52:10 GMT from information held in the Worcestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 7 Feb 2019 at 12:48.

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