Parish Church of All Saints

PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1025462
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1025462
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
West Sussex
District:
Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:
Lindfield
National Grid Reference:
TQ 34888 25850

Details

TQ 3426 LINDFIELD HIGH STREET
(east side)
6/209 Parish Church of All Saints
10.9.51
GV II*
Parish church. Mainly c1300 and C14 restored in C19. Built of Sussex and Ardingly sandstone ashlar with Horsham stone slab roof and the tower having shingled spire with iron weather vane.
Comprises nave of 2 bays with 2 bay lower chancel having W&S chapel, south porch
with parvise above. WEST TOWER C14 built in 3 stages with trefoiled window to west on bottom stage, lancet to middle stage and oculus to top stage. Offset buttresses.
Broached shingled spire with iron weathervane. SOUTH PORCH C14 gabled with parvise above having trefoliated headed window. NAVE C14 restored in C19, has arcades of 2 bays, north and south, with octagonal piers. Nave roof is C19 with square braces.
4 octagonal shaped hatchments. C14 font with cusped ogee panels and elaborate C19
wooden cover and pulley mechanism. C19 octagonal wood pulpit carved with scenes
from the Life of Christ, wooden screen and pews. CHANCEL has north and south
chapels with typical late Perpendicular thin piers. 4 shafts and 4 hollows moulding
and four centred arches. East window much restored but Perpendicular windows to
south transept and north chapel. North chapel has marble wall plaque to
John Court Esq d. 1794, an obelisk with oval medallions. South chapel has wall
plaque to Sarah Board d. 1765, draped urn and coat of arms.
(See Pevsner, Buildings of England, E & W Sussex, P.561).


Listing NGR: TQ3488825850

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Legacy System number:
303121
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 561

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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