All Saints, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Description
The church of All Saints, Pittville, near to Pittville circus, is an edifice of stone, in the Early French Gothic style, from designs by the late Mr. John Middleton, and consists of chancel, with aisles, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and an incomplete tower at the south-west angle, with a clock and 1 bell: the pulpit and reredos are of alabaster and freestone: nearly the whole of the windows are stained, and represent in an elaborate scheme figures of the saints of the Old Testament, and pious men of various ages in the Christian church: a rood screen of iron resting on a wall of alabaster was erected in 1893 from designs by Mr. H. A. Prothero, architect, of Cheltenham, and a side chapel has been added, and the west end of the church decorated with frescoes by Sir William B. Richmond K.C.B., A.R.A.: in 1909 a decorated canopy was placed above the altar: there are 850 sittings.
Church Records
The register of All Saints, Pittville, dates from the year 1868.