St Mary of the Angels, Brownshill
St Mary of the Angels, Brownshill
St Mary of the Angels is a Grade II former Roman Catholic church at Brownshill, overlooking the Golden Valley in Gloucestershire. It was designed by W. D. Caröe and is vested in the Friends of Friendless Churches.
- Location
- Brownshill, Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Gloucestershire
- City / town
- Brownshill
- Address
- Brownshill Road, Brownshill, Gloucestershire, GL6 8SW
- Postcode
- GL6 8SW
- Built
- 1930–37
- Consecrated
- 1937
- Architect
- W. D. Caröe
- Denomination
- Friends of Friendless Churches
- Dedication
- Mary
- Parish
- Chalford
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- Materials
- Local limestone ashlar and rubble; Cotswold stone slate roof; shingled timber bellcote; concrete barrel vault
- Grid reference
- SO 883 025
- Opening hours
- Keyholder nearby, call office for details. Please do not enter the gallery inside the church as the front is dangerously low.
- Access
- Friends of Friendless Churches warn not to enter the gallery; the front is dangerously low.
Overview
Historic England lists the church (1392073, 12 July 2007) as a Romanesque church of 1930–37 by William Douglas Caröe for the Templewood community, with stained glass of about 1938 by Douglas Strachan. It is of local limestone under a Cotswold stone slate roof, with a shingled timber bellcote and a continuous concrete barrel vault. Bertha Kessler and Katherine Hudson, former First Aid Nursing Yeomanry nurses, founded the community in 1927 to offer spiritual healing after the First World War and paid for the chapel from their own savings. Caröe died a year after the 1937 consecration. The church passed to the Friends of Friendless Churches in 2010, their first Roman Catholic vesting. The charity’s page for this church is friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/church/st-mary-of-the-angels-brownshill-gloucestershire/.