page_title: Apperley
section_title: Chapels and church
hierarchical_section_title: Apperley / Chapels and church
caption_attribution_description: English: Apperley War Memorial Apperley's War Memorial stands on a triangular shaped village green next to the church.
context_page_description: Apperley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, about 3 miles southwest of Tewkesbury, 1 mile south of Deerhurst and ¹⁄₃ mile east of the River Severn. It is the largest settlement in Deerhurst civil parish.
  The place-name is derived from the Old English Apuldor-lēah, meaning "apple-tree wood". The area still had orchards in the 1960s, but by then they were being removed.
context_section_description: For most of its history Apperley has been the largest settlement in Deerhurst parish, but the only parish church was St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst.
  In the 18th century a Moravian congregation was established in Apperley, and in 1750 a red-brick chapel was built for it in School Road.
  By 1792 the Moravian congregation had ceased to use the chapel, but by 1799 another congregation, possibly Methodist, was worshipping there. A Wesleyan Methodist congregation had formed in Apperley in the 18th century, and bought the former Moravian chapel in 1845 or 1846.
  In 1856 the Church of England finally had a church built in Apperley. Holy Trinity parish church is a Romanesque Revival building in red brick designed by Francis Penrose. In 1890 Penrose added a west tower incorporating a porch, and an eastern apse for the chancel.
  In 1904 the Wesleyan Methodists had a larger chapel built next to the old one in School Road. It is a Gothic Revival building in red brick. The Wesleyans turned the old Moravian chapel into a school room. It is now a store house.
caption: Apperley war memorial
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