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St. James Square, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3PZ

This house on St James's Square in Cheltenham was the home of Alfred Lord Tennyson Image] during the years 1846-1850.

Plaque to Alfred Lord Tennyson on a house Image] in St James's Square.

Victoria House on St James' Square is Grade II listed and dates from around 1834-50. Today the building is used as offices. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1387866

St James' Square is actually a road, here it is approaching a pair of mini-roundabouts at its junction with Knapp Road, Ambrose Street and Clarence Street. The church on the left is the Roman Catholic, St Gregory the Great.

Opened in 1894 as 'Cheltenham' by the Great Western Railway as the terminus of the line from Swindon, this station replaced an earlier 1847 terminus of the same name some 200m further west. This station was closed in 1966. View south west at the former forecourt and carriage portico. The area has been redeveloped but a December 1965 image from the same viewpoint can be found at http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=9333

St James' Square with the Roman Catholic church of St Gregory the Great in the background. Square is actually a misnomer as St James' Square is in fact a road.

10 St James' Square or St Gregory's Priory is a Georgian style Grade II listed house and was built around 1830-4. The building stands next to the Roman Catholic St Gregory's church. The poet Tennyson lived here. Historic England description House, now priory. c1830-34 with later additions and alterations. Ashlar over brick (stuccoed at right) with concealed roof, end stucco stacks with cornices and iron balconies. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 3 first-floor windows, with blind entrance bay set back to right and further single-storey range at right. Ashlar detailing includes end Doric pilasters to main range, surmounted by crowning entablature. Ground-floor string course, first- and second-floor bands; tooled architraves to first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes, in plain reveals and with sills. Basement has 6/6 sashes. Entrance at right has flight of 4 roll-edged steps to part-glazed double doors with overlight set behind 2 Doric columns with entablature which are surmounted by overhang. Right range has central multi-pane fixed light with tooled architrave, cornice on consoles, between 2 round-arched fixed lights, low parapet and copings. Otherwise right return has 6/6 and 3/6 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: individual balconies to ground and second floors have lozenge pattern with cast lead tassels, the design derived from L N Cottingham, plate 16. First floor has Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif to continuous balcony. HISTORICAL NOTE: Tennyson lived here. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 35). Source: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1387868

At 7 St James Square. St Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church is in the background.

A handsome reminder of "probably Cheltenham's major failed development". Only this and its scaffolded neighbour were built out of a planned fifteen houses. By Charles Harcourt Masters, c1808. Grade II listed.