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unusual facts about St Philip and St James Church, Leckhampton



Bramall Hall

Salusbury died there four years later and was buried in Leckhampton.

Cheltenham Leckhampton railway station

The station was originally called Leckhampton, but acquired its longer name in 1906 when a through express train service between Newcastle upon Tyne and Swansea was routed along the Banbury to Cheltenham line: the express did not pass through any of the main Cheltenham stations, and the renaming of Leckhampton, where it called, was intended to show passengers that there was a Cheltenham service on the train.

Geology of Gloucestershire

The Inferior Oolite, capping the main north-west facing escarpment, comprises up to 100m of mainly oolitic limestones including the Cheltenham freestone - quarried most extensively at Leckhampton and used widely in the distinctive Regency architecture of Cheltenham.

Henry Norwood

Henry Norwood (c.1614-89), of Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and was a Member of Parliament.

Joseph Finch Fenn

He died on 22 July 1884, and was buried in his family vault in the churchyard of Leckhampton, near Cheltenham.

Leckhampton

It provides a base for community activities, amateur dramatics (Leckhampton Players) and dance classes (Leckhampton Tappers).

He also built Tramway Cottage on Daisybank Road, a site that had been used for a fun fair every Good Friday.

Leckhampton Players

The Leckhampton Players is an amateur dramatics company based in Leckhampton, near Cheltenham.

Leckhampton, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

In contrast to Leckhampton House's suburban late-Victorianism, the George Thomson Building (named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Paget Thomson, sometime master of the college) is an example of postwar modernism, designed by Sir Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.

Salusbury Pryce Humphreys

He died there on 17 November 1845 at the age of sixty-six and was buried in Leckhampton.

St Philip and St James Church, Leckhampton

It now forms part of the South Cheltenham Group of churches centred on St Peter's.


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