St Andrew's Church, Toddington is a Grade I Listed Building in the town of

Toddington, Gloucestershire Toddington is a village and civil parish in north Gloucestershire in Tewkesbury Borough, located approximately 12 miles (20 km) north-east of Cheltenham with a population of around 300, increasing to 419 at the 2011 census The village i ...

, England. The present church is the third to occupy the site.

History

Prior to the 1870s, the church was dedicated to St Leonard. Originally founded before 1666, the church was rebuilt for the first time in 1723 by Thomas Charles Tracy, 5th Viscount Tracy. The building of 1723 was a small Perpendicular structure, of which only very small elements are known to still exist. It was demolished in 1868 and the church was rebuilt almost entirely in 1868–69 by

George Edmund Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccle ...

(1824–1881). Street was commissioned by the 3rd Lord Sudeley. The work cost £44,000, equivalent to around £20 million in the 21st Century. An illustration of the finished church was featured in ''The Building News'' on 5 January 1870. It was rededicated to St Andrew after the rebuild was completed. Little remains of the earlier buildings aside from some loose effigies dating from the 17th Century and three marble wall monuments from the 18th Century. The church's large North Chapel houses the tombs of

Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (28 December 1778 – 10 February 1858), known as Charles Hanbury until 1798 and as Charles Hanbury Tracy from 1798 to 1838, was a British Whig politician. Early life Hanbury-Tracy was born on 28 Decemb ...

(1778–1858) and his wife Henrietta Susanna Tracy. Lord Sudeley left £5000 towards the creation of the tombs, which were designed by

John Graham Lough John Graham Lough (8 January 1798 – 8 April 1876) was an English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture. He also produced ideal classical male and female figures. Life John Graham Lough was born at Bl ...

. The large sums of money which the family donated towards the building an upkeep of the church, combined with the agricultural depression of the late 19th Century were eventually contributory factors to the financial decline of the Hanbury-Tracy family. The church became Listed in 1960.

Services

Services are held in the church on the first (Parish Communion) and fourth (family service and Evensong) Sundays of the month.

Gallery

File:Gargoyle - geograph.org.uk - 667744.jpg, Gargoyle on St Andrew's File:St. Andrew's church, Toddington - nave - geograph.org.uk - 1537623.jpg, St Andrew's, interior File:Tomb in Toddington church - geograph.org.uk - 218934.jpg, Tomb of Lord Sudeley

References

{{reflist Churches completed in 1870 Grade I listed churches in Gloucestershire 17th-century churches in the United Kingdom