Parish Church of All Saints
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, GRANGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114154
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, GRANGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114154
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, GRANGE 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, GRANGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cople
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10323 48469
Details
TL 1048 COPLE GRACE LANE
4/33 Parish Church of All 13.7.64 Saints
GV I
Parish church. Circa 1430, C16 and C18. Courses rubble (mainly limestone), ironstone tower, ashlar dressings. Chancel, N and S chapels, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Plain parapets to S chapel and aisle, embattled parapets elsewhere. Chancel: C15. 4-light E window. Arcades of 2 4-centred arches each side, that to S taller. Chancel arch similar to nave arcades. N chapel: C16. 3-light E window contains some C15 work. 2 3-light N windows. S chapel: C16. Windows, one to E, 2 to S, reworked C19. Archway to S aisle similar to those to chancel. Nave: C15. 3-bay arcades both sides. Clerestory with 3 square-headed 2-light windows each side. N aisle: C15, windows reworked C19. N doorway re-uses some C14 work. S aisle: C15, windows reworked C19. Extends westward, forming vestry S of tower, lit by 2-light window. S porch: C18, altered early C20. 5-light windows each side. W tower: C15. 3 stages, with diagonal buttresses, and octagonal stair turret to NE corner. Pointed-arched W doorway surmounted by pointed-arched 3-light window. C19 parapet and belfry windows. Interior: 2 altar-tombs to chancel, one to Walter Luke, 1544, and wife Anne Launcelyn, 1538, the brass retaining traces of inlaid colour, other of C16 with brasses to Thomas Grey and Benet (Launcelyn) his wife, and their sons and daughters. Chancel floor has brass to John Launcelyn and wife Margaret, 1435, reusing C14 brass (F.W. Kuhlicke, "A Palimpsest Brass at Cople", Beds Arch. Journal, vol 7, 1972, pp.87-88). Other C15 and C16 brasses in N and S chapels. Angel corbels bearing shields (Grey and Launcelyn) to chapel arcades. C20 chancel roof, others C15. Choir stalls retain 4 late C15 poppy-heads and 2 old linenfold panels. Late C16 pewing. 3 central bays of 5-bay rood screen are late C15.
Listing NGR: TL1032348469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kuhlicke, F W, Bedfordshire Architectural Journal in A Palimpsest Brass at Cople, Vol. 7, (1972), 87-88
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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