Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WRAXALL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1158033
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WRAXALL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1158033
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WRAXALL HILL
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, WRAXALL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wraxall and Failand
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49021 71969
Details
ST 47 SE WRAXALL WRAXALL HILL (west side)
3/204 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
11.10.61
G.V. I
Parish Church (Anglican). C12, altered and enlarged early - mid C13 and late
C14; restored 1851 and 1893 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. West tower; nave; north
aisle and chapel; south porch and chapel; chancel. Ashlar and coursed rubble
with freestone dressings; slate and lead roofs with coped raised verges and
behind plain parapets. West tower: banded stone of 2 colours; 4 stages,
diagonal buttresses with off-sets; blank arcaded parapet with an image niche in
the centre of each side; square corner pinnacles surmounted by smaller pinnacles;
polygonal stair turret to north-east; 2-light windows in 2 tiers, string course
which rises to form a headmould; 2-light west window, image niche with ogee
head; moulded west doorway. Nave and south chapel: three 3-light Perpendicular
style windows with cusped tracery and square hoodmoulds; buttresses with off-
sets; sanctus bell-cote over east gable. South porch: square projecting porch,
diagonal buttresses with off-sets; pointed doorway of 2 orders, stiff-leaf
capitals to the columns (restored); dripmould with carved head stops; single
light lancets on first floor; sundial in centre of parapet; decorative wrought-
iron gate. Chancel: pointed priest's door has an inner roll moulding with
head stops, outer hoodmould also with head stops; two 2-light Perpendicular
style windows with cusped tracery, square heads and dripmoulds; 5-light C19
Perpendicular style east window. North aisle: three 3-light Perpendicular
style windows, as the south side; projecting polygonal rood stair turret;
pointed north door with outer roll moulding, hood mould with carved stops.
South doorway is C12, columns with scalloped capitals; pointed and chamfered
doorways to stairs to first floor room. Interior. Nave has 4 bay arcades, the
piers consist of alternating engaged columns and hollow mouldings and have
moulded capitals and abaci. Tower arch of continuous double hollow and ogee
moulding; chancel arch of continuous hollow and roll moulding. The nave and
north aisle roofs are C19, but rest on a good collection of C14 and C15 carved
corbel heads. Former doorways to rood stair have chamfered surrounds and 4-
centred heads; 4-centre headed doorway to upper room of porch to west of south
door. South chapel is reached through a tall 4-centred arch of hollow and wave
mouldings; 2 piscinae with ogee and trefoil head. The chancel is mostly late
C19 by Blomfield: 5-bay arch-braced collar beam roof with cusped windbracing.
The pulpit, lectern, organ and benches are also mid - late C19, in a Perpendicular
style; the screens are by Blomfield and particularly well carved. Font. C15,
octagonal, ashlar, with 2 blank arches on each side; on the pier adjoining the
font is a stone book-rest supported on a demi-figure of an angel. Glass: a
good collection of glass by C.E. Kempe from 1896, donated by the first Lord
Wraxall; in the room above the porch is a late C15 lancet representing the Five
Wounds, on a shield held by an angel. Monuments. Chancel: early C16 tomb
chest to Sir Edmund and Lady Gorges in armour and robes with a finely carved
front of heraldry flanked by angels; simple inscribed marble plaque to Thomas
Holt, died 1687. South chapel: Charles Brent, died 1729 and Margarita Coopey,
died 1744, aedicular marble tablets, flanked by pilasters with friezes. Nave:
John Lucas, died 1817, marble by Tyley, 2 parents stand by an urn. North aisle:
L. Lucas, died 1807, marble seated figure against a curved pedestal; W. King,
died 1792, marble plaque with an urn. George and Henry Seymour, 1827, marble
and freestone, gothic inscribed plaques with gabled canopies. The church is
prominently situated and is a fine landmark with excellent details of
Perpendicular style architecture (both mediaeval and late C19 by Blomfield).
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958). .
Listing NGR: ST4902471971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33595
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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