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Pitt Street, GLOUCESTER, GL1 2BQ

One end of this covered way leads to St. John's church hall. The other end looks as if it once joined the hall to another building, but the way into it has now been bricked up.

The top of the steeple of the church was removed for safety reasons in 1910; the church tower and steeple were medieval, the main body of the church was replaced in 1734. There is an information board by the stonework which has been added since 2011 Image

A fine High Gothic former court building by the local Fulljames and Waller, 1858-61. Still in good order and clearly in use for some purpose, the former business is now conducted at the County Court on Kimbrose Way, an institution where I spend too much of my working week.

This OS cut mark can be found on No3 Pitt Street. It marks a point 14.865m above mean sea level.

Built as the Court of Probate by Fulljames & Walker, 1858-61, in full-throated Gothic mode. Grade II listed. Possibly now part of King's School.

The Court of Probate building on the corner of Pitt Street and Park Street. It was built in 1858 to a design by Fulljames and Waller. Today the building is offices. The building is Grade II listed. Historic England description Court of Probate, now offices. 1858. By Fulljames and Waller. Rock-faced rubble in courses with dressed stone features and details, steeply- pitched hipped and gabled red tiled roofs with projecting, timber-lined eaves, two triangular dormers on the outer slopes of the roof of the main block of No.3 and decorative wrought-iron cresting to its ridge, ashlar stacks with clustered flue shafts. Picturesque Gothic style. Units of various sizes placed to fit corner site; the major unit a large block at east end with a steeply pitched, hipped roof; the other units set back to west and north. EXTERIOR: one and two storeys designed for romantic medieval effect; offset plinth with chamfered ashlar capping; entrances in the assymetrical front facing Pitt Street; entrance to No.3, approximately in the centre, is a gabled porch with arched doorway and hoodmould, to left of the porch the single-storey main block. On the front of the main block a window of eight arched lights of the same size and with trefoiled heads, the stone jambs and mullions faced with marble shafts supporting the outer mouldings to the arches. On the front of No.3 an inscription in a stone panel in raised Gothic lettering: "Gloucester Court of Probate MDCCCVIII" INTERIOR: entrance lobby to No.3 with encaustic tile floor, on right the main block a single chamber with a high open timber roof, the feet of the trusses restrained by a system of iron tie rods; the lights of windows on the entrance front and east are framed by polished marble shafts as on the exterior; oriel windows. Only the interior of the main block inspected. Source:https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245683

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