Church of St Saviour is a Grade II* listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1973. A 19th century Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Saviour
- WRENN ID
- shifting-ledge-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1973
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Saviour, New Church Street, Tetbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 887 932
- Coordinates
- 51.63804, -2.16358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Saviour is a former Anglican church, now cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust. It was built in 1848 by S. W. Daukes. The building is constructed of ashlar with a Cotswold stone slate roof, and is designed in the Decorated style.
The church consists of a nave and aisles with a continuous roof, a separate chancel, and features coped verges, cross saddlestones, cross finials, and end half-saddlestones with a trefoil panel. A sanctus bellcote sits atop the west gable. A south porch has a steeply pitched gable with open timberwork arcade featuring 3-light ogees and broad quatrefoils, above a pointed arch with mouchettes in the spandrels and decorative barge boards. The aisles and chancel have moulded stone eaves with a ball flower frieze. The windows are of Decorated style, with small elongated trefoil head single lights. The west end features two stepped buttresses marking the arcade ends, a central circular window with cinquefoil heads and mouchettes, and a small rose window above. The chancel has a 3-light east window, and a projecting north vestry with a decorative octagonal stack, a saddlestone cowl, and two 2-light windows with a doorway between on the south wall. Stepped angle buttresses define the corners of the building.
Inside, the church has an 8-bay king-post roof with braced collar beams. A 4-bay pointed arcade features alternate round and octagonal piers with carved angel stops, and a ball flower frieze above. Contemporary fittings include pews with pierced quatrefoil backs and poppy head ends, a stone font with arched panels and an elaborate crocketed cover, a stone pulpit to the left of the chancel arch, and a carved wooden chancel screen. The chancel roof is panelled and the stone reredos of 5 bays with crocketed canopies were designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and John Hardman.
The church was built to accommodate the overflow of population in Tetbury, who could not afford to pay for seats at the parish church of St Mary. The church is virtually complete as originally built.
Local climate
Church of St Saviour receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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