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Church of St Lawrence, Sandhurst

The Church of St Lawrence is a grade II* listed Church of England church in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire. [1]

Church of England Anglican state church of England

The Church of England is the established church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the supreme governor. The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the third century, and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

Sandhurst is a village just outside Gloucester, England.

It was rebuilt to a design by Thomas Fulljames in 1857-58. [2]

Thomas Fulljames was an architect in Gloucestershire in the first half of the nineteenth century. As diocesan surveyor from 1832 until 1870, latterly in partnership with Frederick Sandham Waller, he designed, reconstructed or extended a number of churches in Gloucestershire.

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References

  1. Historic England. "Church of St Lawrence (1154346)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. David Verey & Alan Brooks. (2002). The Buildings of England Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean. 3rd edition. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 105. ISBN   9780300097337.

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