326 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Cirencester ParkGrade I park or gardenHospital of St JohnGrade I listedFormer Railway StationGrade II listedLock Up in Grounds of Cotswold District Council OfficesGrade II listedThe WheatsheafGrade II listed+29See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Gloucester Street39 listed · 3 II*

Dollar Street15 listed

Dyer Street15 listed

Park Street14 listed

Castle Street13 listed

Cecily Hill13 listed · 1 II*

Coxwell Street13 listed

Market Place12 listed · 1 II*

Cricklade Street8 listed

Thomas Street8 listed · 2 II*

Gosditch Street6 listed · 1 II*

Querns Lane4 listed · 1 II*

Of the 326 entries, 190 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 103 entries were listed in 1948, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 142 came in 1971, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

4 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Churchyard cross

RomanCorinium Roman town

RomanLong barrow and Roman amphitheatre and cemetery

St John's Hospital chantry

1 registered park or garden

Cirencester ParkGrade I

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Thomas Ruthall

John Small

John Clinch

Caleb Hillier Parry

Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Elizabeth Brown

Alfred Brown

Sebastian Bach Mills

Francis Baker

Edward Haygarth

Sydney Savory Buckman

Sarah Oram

S. H. Hooke

Wilson Tovey

John Burnett-Stuart

Charles Allen

Theodore Fowler

Lionelle Howard

Oswald Allen Harker

Stephen Strafford

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Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet1783–1867 · British surgeon (1783-1867)

Elizabeth Brown1830–1899 · British astronomer

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Edward Haygarth1854–1915 · English footballer and cricketer (1854-1915)

Caleb Hillier Parry1755–1822 · English physician (1755-1822)

Sydney Savory Buckman1860–1929 · British geologist and palaeontologist (1860–1929)

Sebastian Bach Mills1839–1898 · American musician (1839-1898)

John Burnett-Stuart1875–1958 · British Army general (1875-1958)

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Charles Allen1878–1958 · Cricketer (1878-1958)

Everyone born in Cirencester → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

For its size, Cirencester has more listed heritage than 92% of UK towns. In all there are 326 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Corinium Roman town. Church of St John the Baptist sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Only 32 of the 512 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Gloucester Street alone has 39 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1984. Of the whole list, 74% are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 4 scheduled monuments; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.