All Saints Church
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, GUITHAVON STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122533
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- All Saints Church
- Statutory Address:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, GUITHAVON STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122533
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- All Saints Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, GUITHAVON STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BN
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:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, GUITHAVON STREET, WITHAM, CM8 1BN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 81933 14585
Details
WITHAM
GUITHAVON STREET
TL 8114
2/126
All Saints Church
II
Church. 1841, by Brown of Norwich. Grey Gault brick and stone dressings,
with knapped flint panels and grey slate roof. Cruciform plan, with nave,
north and south aisles, Chancel and 2 Transepts. West and south porches.
Nave is of 6 bays of tall lancet windows, with drip moulds and head stops.
Between each window is a 3 stage buttress. Moulded string below cills.
Modillioned eaves, formerly parapetted. Same detailing returns along
east and west walls of the transepts. West front has full height decorative
porch with central doorway, flanked by 2 windows, with moulded 2 centred
arches, on attached columns with moulded bases and capitals. Each arch is
summounted by a moulded gable with finial. Above, the west window is of
3 lights with 2 centred arches, drip moulds and head stops. All surmounted
by a gable with a finial. Flanking buttresses in 4 stages, are surmounted
by octagonal finials with conical caps. North face of porch has a single
window matching those to the Nave, and south face has a doorway with
moulded 2 centred arch, and small window over. Parapet gables incorporating
clocks have been added to north and south. Aisles culminate in parapet
gables with moulded trefoil windows above a bracketted string and tall
windows matching Nave. Flanking buttresses in 3 stages with gabled caps.
Tall gabled and buttressed bell cote. North and south gable ends of
transepts have 3 light windows with 2 centred heads drip moulds and head
stops, 3 stage flanking buttresses with gabled caps. Late C19 gabled
porch added to south transept with 2 centred arch and grey slate roof. Chancel
was originally one bay, extended by a further bay, in late C19 and has 3
gables to east end. Central 3 light window, flanked by single light windows,
with buttresses between. Moulded string at cill level with grey brick below.
Early C20 single storey vestry added to east wall of north transept. Grey
brick with one large panel of knapped flint. Parapet wall and moulded string.
North door and window have Tudor arches with drip moulds. East window has
2 centred head.
(A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840; H Colvin.)
Listing NGR: TL8193314585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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