The Old Priory and Attached Walls, Piers and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. Historical, religious. 1 related planning application.
The Old Priory and Attached Walls, Piers and Gate
- WRENN ID
- former-gargoyle-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1972
- Type
- Historical, religious
- Address
- The Old Priory and Attached Walls, Piers and Gate, 70, Clarence Street
- OS grid reference
- SO 945 225
- Coordinates
- 51.90167, -2.08002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Priory and attached walls, piers, and gate is a former presbytery built in 1881, likely by Boultons of Cheltenham. It features coursed, squared limestone rubble over brick, with dressed quoins and a concealed roof, and includes an iron gate. This building is designed in the Gothic Revival style and has two storeys with two first-floor windows. The angles are marked by quoins, and there is a central off-set buttress with a niche at the first floor that holds a statue of St Gregory. A moulded band runs along the first floor. The windows are similar, featuring two-cusped lights with mullions and transoms; the ground floor windows have a quatrefoil in the head and are inscribed with 'Jesus' and 'Maria', complete with hoodmoulds. The first-floor windows have the date displayed in roundels above and voussoirs. The entrance is set back to the right and features a plank door, linking the building to St Gregory's Church. The interior has not been inspected.
The subsidiary features include a coursed limestone wall on the left that is approximately 2 meters high, with double-chamfered coping. The wall returns along the front facade and is about 1 meter high with chamfered coping, extending for approximately 10 meters to square piers that have trefoiled heads. The gate has a panelled lower stage topped with spearhead bars. Historically, this building served as the presbytery for the Roman Catholic Church of St Gregory, which was designed by C Hanson between 1854 and 1857 and completed by Boultons of Cheltenham with builder Mr Acock of Cheltenham. The Old Priory abuts the Church of St Gregory located in St James's Square.
Local climate
The Old Priory and Attached Walls, Piers and Gate receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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