Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HORSESHOE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175616
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HORSESHOE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175616
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HORSESHOE 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, HORSESHOE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Watford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11482 00866
Details
1. 5259 HORSESHOE LANE Leavesden
Church of All Saints TL 10 SW 2/2
II
2. 1853. Sir G G Scott. Flint and stone decorated Gothic church. Plain tile roofs with fish-scale bands. Nave, chancel, lean-to aisle, west tower and south porch. Tower rises from roof, plain, square with coped parapet at ridge level to nave, narrow shingled bell-stage with gabled bell-openings rising into base of slim broach spire, also shingled. Two-light windows with trefoil and quatrefoil heads, larger and more elaborate to chancel, with hood moulds. Angle buttresses with stone set-offs. Gabled timber south-west porch, tiled, with cusped bargeboards. Above, 2 carved stone roundels, angels carrying scrolls. Two heavy buttresses to west end with long 2-light window between. Within, 3 bay nave, 2 bay chancel. Round columns to south arcade. Moulded tower and chancel arches on carved corbels. Open timber roofs, scissor trussed in chancel, arch-braced collar-truss with crown-post and upper scissor rafters to nave. Stone pulpit and font circa 1853. Painted wood retable, C14 Italian style, later C19. Chancel and south aisle glass circa 1853-60, all by Wailes. Patterned glass west window also circa 1853.
Listing NGR: TL1148200866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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