Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115943
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05169/13
- Rights:
- © Dr W A Cooper. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115943
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Emberton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88496 49456
Details
SP 84 NE EMBERTON CHURCH LANE
5/26 Parish Church of
All Saints
17.11.66
- II*
Parish Church. Chancel, nave and aisles built c1340, west tower
early C15. Porches and vestry c1870. Nave much restored and clerestory
rebuilt c1870. Chancel walls ashlar, remainder of coursed rubblestone.
Chancel roof tile, the remainder slated. 2 bay chancel, 5 bay
nave with aisles, west tower and north and south porches. Chancel
has 5-light east window and 2 windows of 3-lights to each side, all
with Decorated flowing ogee light tracery. Plain plinth,moulded
sill, string course. Moulded cornice enriched with flowers, grotesque
heads and hearts. Buttresses, one to middle of north wall, two at each
east angle have gabled heads, those on east have square pinnacles,
enriched with crocketed gables and traceried sides, below are niches
with trefoil pointed heads and gabled labels. Nave has north and
south porches c1870 and 3-light windows with Victorian Decorated
tracery, reticulated or flowing, 2 to the east of the porches one
to their west (By 1850 all Medieval tracery in the nave had been
removed). Clerestory has 5 quatrefoil Victorian windows. West tower
of 2 stages with a north east stair-turret and diagonal west buttresses.
West doorway of 3 moulded orders, 2-light windows over. Bell chamber
has 2-light windows with outer arch of 3 orders. Upper storey replaced
belfry removed in 1850. Coped parapet. Interior: Chancel arch early
C15 of 2 moulded orders dying into the walls. Nave arcade of 5 bays
with pointed arches of 2 moulded orders. Piers of 4 engaged shafts
with moulded bell capitals and bases. Moulded labels with modern
stops. Tower arch of 3 chamfered acutely pointed orders, outermost
continuous, inner two with 3 attached shafts, moulded bell capitals
and bases. Piscina and Sedilia range in chancel. 4 bays of cusped
ogee arches with moulded capitals and, in spandrels, shields with
instruments of the Passion. Piscina in left bay. On north side of
chancel oak 3-bay screen withcusped foiled arches, C15; font is
octagonal bowl with tracery pattern panels. Stem also panelled.
Moulded base, c1400. Brass in chancel north wall, John Mordon alias
Andrew, 1410. Figure of priest in mass vestments. North chancel window
has stained glass by O'Connor, 1865. At west end War Memorial by
Farmer and Brindley, c1920. Alabaster angel on oxblood marble plinth.
RCHM II. 111. Mon. 1
Listing NGR: SP8849649456
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 25 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350931
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/118
War Memorials Online, accessed 25 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/122329
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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