St. Michael's Churchyard
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St. Michael's Churchyard

Tetbury Upton, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England

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Early records of Catholicism in Tetbury are sketchy though a Catholic church stood on the spot now occupied by St Mary the Virgin, from very early on until the reformation. The original church fell into decay and was rebuilt in 1777 and the present building is the only Georgian church in the county.
Tetbury is the oldest site of Christian worship in Gloucestershire âP] people have worshiped here since a monastery was founded in 681 and a minster church was mentioned but is not recorded anywhere else. It is assumed there was a church at Tetbury in 1086 as a priest was recorded on the Manor.
Much later it is known that at the insistence of a Belgian resident, Baron de Brienen, Mass was celebrated in 1881 at the home of Mr Hugginson, a confectioner of the town and that from 1881 to 1883 Father Francis Larive came from Malmesbury to celebrate Mass there. The congregation then numbered twenty or thirty.
Thereafter records are silent until the First World War when, as with many other Cotswold communities, an influx of Belgian refugees greatly enlarged the Catholic presence of the town. Mass was then said at nearby Chavenage House.
The Tetbury community did not secure a permanent place of worship until later.
The present churchâPcs history goes back some 75 years, when Father Alphonsus Grorord, the Parish Priest from Malmesbury purchased York House in Silver Street.
Early records of Catholicism in Tetbury are sketchy though a Catholic church stood on the spot now occupied by St Mary the Virgin, from very early on until the reformation. The original church fell into decay and was rebuilt in 1777 and the present building is the only Georgian church in the county.
Tetbury is the oldest site of Christian worship in Gloucestershire âP] people have worshiped here since a monastery was founded in 681 and a minster church was mentioned but is not recorded anywhere else. It is assumed there was a church at Tetbury in 1086 as a priest was recorded on the Manor.
Much later it is known that at the insistence of a Belgian resident, Baron de Brienen, Mass was celebrated in 1881 at the home of Mr Hugginson, a confectioner of the town and that from 1881 to 1883 Father Francis Larive came from Malmesbury to celebrate Mass there. The congregation then numbered twenty or thirty.
Thereafter records are silent until the First World War when, as with many other Cotswold communities, an influx of Belgian refugees greatly enlarged the Catholic presence of the town. Mass was then said at nearby Chavenage House.
The Tetbury community did not secure a permanent place of worship until later.
The present churchâPcs history goes back some 75 years, when Father Alphonsus Grorord, the Parish Priest from Malmesbury purchased York House in Silver Street.

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  • Added: 5 Mar 2021
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2725665