Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170720
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170720
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alverdiscott
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 51950 25257
Details
ALVERDISCOTT SS52NW 4/27 Church of All 4.10.60 Saints (formerly listed as Parish Church of All Saints) GV. II * Anglican parish church. 15th century; north aisle built 1579; restored 1863. Squared and coursed slatestone; gabled stone-coped slate roof. Plan: Chancel, nave with north aisle, west tower. Perpendicular-style fenestration of 1863 to chancel and south wall of nave. Chancel has 3-light east window, and 2-light square-headed windows with trefoiled lights flanking south door of 1863. South wall of nave, which has offset buttress of 1863, has two 2 and 3-light windows flanking porch of 1863: porch, which has round-arched doorway, leads to Norman-style round-arched doorway of 1863 with chamfered imposts. North aisle of 1579, has label moulds with block stops over 3 Perpendicular 3-light windows, which have trefoiled and ogee-headed lights with Mouchettes to spandrels and quatrefoil heads. C15 three-stage tower with string courses: C15 three-light Perpendicular window above 3-centred arched moulded west doorway with mid C19 door; one-light cinquefoiled windows; projecting stair-turret to south with slit lights; crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Interior: chancel interior of 1863 has Decorated-style tracery to reredos, flanked by The Ten Commandments set in crocketed and cinquefoiled canopies; waggon roof with blue-painted panels and gilt detailing; chancel arch has moulded inner order set on corbels of angels holding shields. Nave has 3-bay arcade and roof of 1863, which has chamfered granite pillars with cushion capitals supporting heavy timber arcade plate and arch-braced roof. South aisle: late C13 pointed-arched doorway with convex moulding and bar stops to vestry; fine waggon roof with moulded ribs and carved bosses, built 1579 for Richard Beller. West tower has medieval inlaid floor tiles, and pointed-arched doorway with convex moulding to stair turret. Porch has medieval inlaid floor tiles and late C16 arch-braced roof with bosses carved on collar purlin. Fittings: vine-leaf decoration to cornice, set on mid C19 base; late C12 cushion-type font, with relief-carved rosettes to sides and fleur-de-lys to soffits, with mid C19 base and coves, mid C19 (probably 1863) choir stalls, communion rail and pews. Monuments in south aisle: Baroque wall monument to Gilbert Hody (d. 1705), has heraldic cartouche set in broken scrolled pediment with angels set above oval cartouche framed by Tuscan columns with richly carved rosettes and sways. Very fine life-size effigy of Thomas Welshe, d. 1639, on tomb chest: the subject's "Van Dyke" (Pevsner) dress is finely detailed and he is shown holding a prayer book: he is carved in sentimental fashion. (Buildings of England: North Devon, pp. 38-9; National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SS5195025257
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91344
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 38-39
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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