All Saints Church

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

AWBRIDGE RATLEY LANE SU 32 SW 2/12 Awbridge All Saints Church

II

Church 1876 by J Colson. Squared rubble Swanage stone and Bath stone dressings, old plain tile roof. Plan of chancel and nave with SE vestry and NW porch.

E end has pointed 3-light trefoiled window with trefoiled in circular tracery in head below cill string course which drops either side and runs round diagonal buttresses with gables and sloping tops, and along sides. Sides have 2 trefoiled lancets with hood moulds and buttress between. Nave to SE gabled vestry, with vault under, shouldered door to W and 2-light trefoiled plate tracery window to S end. Nave has on both sides stepped buttresses to E and between bays, with to E 2-light pointed trefoiled window with trefoil in head, single light similar in next bay, 2 light similar in next bay and in W bay to S 2 light similar.

To N gabled porch with buttresses to sides on end, and pointed door of moulded arch on foliated capitals on nook shafts. W end has 2-tall-single-light trefoiled window and rose window of cinquefoils in gable. Diagonal corner buttresses.

Above weatherboarded bellcote of tapering lower section to bellstage of 3 trefoiled openings with quatrefoils openings over on each side and short broach spire. Inside chancel stained glass E window and E side window. Wagon roof.

Reredos, panelling and rails. Chancel arch rising from foliated corbels. Nave side windows C20 stained glass. Open arch-braced roof. Contemporary furnishings, carved timber pulpit and stone font.

Listing NGR: SU3244623912

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1268 IOE Records taken by G Jim Love; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr G. Jim Love. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project