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The tracery of the windows is reflects architectural developments between 1250 and 1350. The stained glass of the windows is late Victorian and regarded as of particularly high quality. The woodwork is Victorian or later, and the south porch is a late Victorian addition. A feature of the church is the spire and bell tower.
The gallery and museum is managed by The Cheltenham Trust. The museum is housed in part of a Regency building on Clarence Street (Cheltenham Library currently occupies much of the original building), designed as the Cheltenham Public Library by architect William Hill Knight, who also designed the Cheltenham Synagogue [1] and Montpellier Walk.
Cheltenham in 1933. Cheltenham is located at River Chelt, which rises nearby at Dowdeswell and runs through the town on its way to the Severn. [6] It was first recorded in 803, as Celtan hom; the meaning has not been resolved with certainty, but latest scholarship concludes that the first element preserves a Celtic noun cilta, 'steep hill', here referring to the Cotswold scarp; the second ...
The Holst Birthplace Museum (now called Holst Victorian House) was founded by Gustav's daughter, Imogen Holst, in 1974 during centenary ceremonies for Holst's birth. The museum houses a number of mementoes, including the piano on which Holst composed The Planets , as well as pictures, books, some letters and manuscripts.
Crackers, which also date back to Victorian times, are cardboard tubes wrapped in colorful paper that, when pulled apart by two people, make a loud cracking sound.
The Cheltenham Looker-On was a social and literary weekly periodical published in Cheltenham, England, between 1833 and 1920. The Looker-On was founded in 1833 by Henry Davies , then the librarian and bookseller of Montpellier Spa , [ 1 ] with its first issue in May 1833.
According to maps in Cheltenham library, Fairview was part of an expansion of the town onto former farmland in the early nineteenth century. Much of its housing is a mix of late Regency and Victorian, with some more recent additions filling the gaps left by early developers. Another feature of the area is its narrow streets, planned well before ...
This is a list of British periodicals established in the 19th century, excluding daily newspapers.. The periodical press flourished in the 19th century: the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals plans to eventually list more 100,000 titles; the current Series 3 lists 73,000 titles. 19th-century periodicals have been the focus of extensive indexing efforts, such as that of ...