Parish Church of All Saints
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1114055
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1114055
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ridgmont
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97587 36057
Details
RIDGMONT HIGH STREET SP 9736 11/73 Parish Church of All 23.1.61 Saints GV II*
Parish Church. 1854-5 by Sir G G Scott for the Bedford Estates. Coursed stone with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs. Chancel, N vestry/organ chamber,nave, N and S aisles, N porch, W tower. Late C13 style. Mostly pointed-arched windows whose dripstones have moulded foliate stops. Bands of geometric ornamentation in ironstone to tower and around heads of windows. Chancel has 3-light E window with geometrical tracery. Vestry and both aisles have mainly paired trefoiled lights in regular arrangements. Nave has 4 quatrefoil windows to each side of clerestory. 4-bay pointed-arched arcades to both sides. Similar chancel and tower arches. Gabled porch has steeply pitched roof and 2 quatrefoil wndows to W. Stone-coped gables to all above parts, that to chancel with carved stone cross finial at apex. W tower is in 3 stages with setback buttresses rising to 2nd stage. 2-light W window to ground stage, single lights to all sides of 2nd stage, 2-light windows to all sides of bell-stage. Octagonal stair turret adjoins NE angle, rising slightly above tower parapet. Stone broach spire with moulded decoration to each angle and ornamental lucarnes to alternate sides. Interior: relatively simple but consistent decoration. Wagon roofs to nave and chancel. Stencil patterning between rafters in some parts. Black-letter texts to aisle walls. Foliate carving to capitals. Octagonal marble font on clustered columns, with carved panels.
Listing NGR: SP9758736057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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