Gloucester Court of Probate
| Gloucester Court of Probate | |
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Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 The Gloucester Court of Probate | |
| Type: | Courthouse |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO83271880 |
| Location: | 51°52’3"N, 2°14’40"W |
| City: | Gloucester |
| History | |
| Address: | 3 & 4 Pitt Street |
| Built 1858 | |
| By: | Thomas Fulljames |
| Courthouse | |
| Gothic revival | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to offices |
Gloucester Court of Probate is a former court house at 3-4 Pitt Street in Gloucester, the county town of Gloucestershire.
The court house was built in 1858 when the administration of wills was removed from the Church courts to secular jurisdiction. A contemporary record though shows the court to have been built ‘by Thomas Holt, Esq., the diocesan registrar and secretary to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, from designs furnished by Fulljames and Waller, of Gloucester’.[1]
The court house is a grade II listed building. It is no longer used as a court-house but has been converted to offices.[2]
History and structure
The building was designed by Thomas Fulljames of Fulljames & Waller in 1858 in a "picturesque Gothic style"[2] and built by Oliver Estcourt at a cost of £1,100.[3]
Fulljames's design produced a building on one and two storeys, designed for romantic mediæval effect. It incorporates rock-faced rubble in courses with dressed stone features and details, with steeply- pitched hipped and gabled red tiled roofs, with two triangular dormers on the outer slopes of the main block. It has decorative wrought-iron cresting to its ridge, ashlar stacks with clustered flue shafts.
On the front of the main block is a window of eight arched lights of the same size and with trefoiled heads, the stone jambs and mullions faced with marble shafts supporting the outer mouldings to the arches.
A stone dedication panel states in raised Gothic lettering "Gloucester Court of Probate MDCCCLVIII."
The building has been converted to offices and is no longer in use as a court.
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References
- ↑ The Building News, 6 March 1861' in 'Architecture of Gloucestershire': Gloucester Court of Probate
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 National Heritage List 1245683: 3 & 4, Pitt Street
- ↑ Jordan, Christine: 'Secret Gloucester' (Amberley Publishing, 2015) ISBN 978-1-4456-4689-3 pages 38–39