Tower of the Old Church of All Saints
TOWER OF THE OLD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078012
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tower of the Old Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER OF THE OLD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078012
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tower of the Old Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER OF THE OLD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHAPEL LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER OF THE OLD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tring Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 89425 15611
Details
TRING RURAL CHAPEL LANE SP 8915 (North side) Long Marston 8/120 Tower of the Old Church 30.11.66 of All Saints GV II* Church tower. C15 (rest of church demolished 1883 and features incorporated in new Church of All Saints in Tring Road (q.v.)). Flint rubble faced with uncoursed knapped flint chequered with Totternhoe stone and with dressings of the same stone. C18 red brick crenellations and some restored heads to top openings. A slender square tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttresses and offsets, string course below upper stage, and low plinth. Small bell-stage openings, that on N complete with 4-centred pointed head and blind spandrels. Large W window of lower stage of 3 cinquefoiled lights with remains of leaded glazing. Narrow chamfered slit window to upper stage on E and S. Tall chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders blocked in rough stonework with pointed arched head over battened door. The interior is plastered and there is a scarsement below the heavily beamed floor of the bell chamber just above head of W window. 2 pairs of bull-nosed stone corbels set in N wall. Roof structure decayed and rubbish but no fittings in base of tower. The church was a chapel-of-ease in Tring parish up to 1867 and formerly had an aisleless nave, chancel, and S porch which were demolished in 1883. An architect's report on the ruinous state of the church in 1881 is printed as appendix I by Vincent. (VCH(1908)291:RCHM(1911)223 no. 2: Pevsner(1977)245: Vincent(1983).
Listing NGR: SP8942515611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 291
Vincent, J E, Hertfordshire in the Twentieth Century An Historical Survey, (1988)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 245
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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