Church of All Saints
Church of All Saints, Willian Church Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174914
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- Church of All Saints, Willian Church Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174914
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of All Saints, Willian Church Road
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, Willian Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 22463 30657
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 23 SW
1/2
LETCHWORTH
Willian
WILLIAN CHURCH ROAD
Church of All Saints
27.5.54
II*
Willian parish church. Two bay nave and chancel, C12 and C13; tower and south porch, C15. Welsh slate roof with coped gables. Flint and ironstone rubble walls with ashlar dressings and buttresses. Three stage tower with stair turret, battlemented parapet, moulded strings, diagonal buttresses and gargoyles. C14 and C15 fenestration in Perpendicular style. Plain, gabled porch.
Interior with C19 timber barrel roof to nave and chancel; chancel retains original corbel masks. Brass of Richard Golden (died 1446). Good wall monuments in chancel to Edward and Joan Lacon (died 1625 and 1624), John Chapman (died 1624) and Thomas Wilson (died 1656). Former C15 chancel screen removed. Carved chancel seats.
(VCH vol III p 179, RCHM Herts p 242.)
Listing NGR: TL2246330657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 179
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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