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SO9421NE
630-1/18/882

CHELTENHAM
SUFFOLK SQUARE (north east side)
Zizzi Restaurant
Former Church of St James

(Formerly listed as Parish Centre for St Philip and St James, SUFFOLK SQUARE)

12/03/65

GV
II*
Formerly known as: Church of St James SUFFOLK SQUARE.
Former Church of St James, parish hall for Church of St Philip and St James at time of listing. Begun 1825 to designs of Edward Jenkins, completed 1830 with advice from JB Papworth; builder, James Cooke. Site donated by James Fisher, the Square's developer. Ashlar over brick with concealed roof. Regency Gothic style, Decorated type tracery.

EXTERIOR: six-bay aisled nave with buttresses (those to west end with pinnacles) between two-light windows with Decorated-type tracery and hoodmoulds; crenellated parapet. Short angled sanctuary. Pinnacled west end gable with lower flanking pinnacled towers. Four-light west window has decorated tracery with crocketed ogee label and clock over; the pinnacle buttresses of the west front have chevroned string course. Four-light east window with Decorated-type tracery and hoodmould with face stops, chamfered sill; between similar two-light windows to aisles. Entrances to west end central double lancet-panelled doors with fanlight; similar smaller pointed-arched doors to ends.

INTERIOR: retains good galleried interior with arcaded panelling to balconies and clustered piers supporting Tudor arches of arcade and iron trusses. Richly carved sanctuary. Single flat-pitched roof of considerable span on slender quatrefoil columns with octagonal abaci and Tudor arches, partly infilled. To rear a narrow-open-well staircase with stick balusters. Doors have Y-tracery. Monuments by G Lewis of Cheltenham; also by Peter Hollins of Birmingham, 1855.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Suffolk Square occupies land bought by the Earl of Suffolk from the de la Bere's and on which he had built Suffolk House for his own residence; his daughter later sold much of the land, on which Suffolk Square now stands. James Fisher began developing the estate in 1823. Part of a distinguished group of buildings in Suffolk Square.

(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 128-129; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 14-18).

Listing NGR: SO9458921612

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