Official Name: | Bulley |
Static Image Name: | St. Michael and All Angels Church, Bulley - geograph.org.uk - 591279.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Michael and All Angels parish church |
Coordinates: | 51.8758°N -2.3476°W |
Os Grid Reference: | SO761196 |
Label Position: | top |
Civil Parish: | Churcham |
Shire District: | Forest of Dean |
Shire County: | Gloucestershire |
Region: | South West England |
Country: | England |
Post Town: | Gloucester |
Postcode District: | GL2 |
Postcode Area: | GL |
Dial Code: | 01452 |
Constituency Westminster: | Forest of Dean |
Bulley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Churcham, in the Forest of Dean district, in Gloucestershire, almost west of the city of Gloucester and about north of the village of Churcham. In 1931 the parish had a population of 134.[1]
The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels has been a dependent chapelry of St Andrew's parish church, Churcham since at least AD 1100. Both St Andrew's and St Michael's are now members of the Forest Edge group of churches.[2]
St Michael's building is Norman. A Perpendicular Gothic window on the south side of the nave is a fifteenth-century addition. In 1886 the building was restored under the direction of the architect Sidney Gambier-Parry. The church is a Grade I listed building.
Bulley has had a long association with Churcham. When a parish school was founded for Churcham and Bulley in 1856 it was built at Bulley. Under the Local Government Act 1894 Bulley was made a separate civil parish, but on 1 April 1935 it was merged with Churcham.[3]