Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STANSTED ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176684
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STANSTED ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176684
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STANSTED 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, STANSTED ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49374 21401
Details
1. 5253 STANSTED ROAD (East Side)
Church of All Saints TL 4921 SW:4/79
II
2. 1936 by S E Dykes Bower. Rough limestone with ashlar dressings. West front to road has tall, broad, central tower with steep, hipped, red tile roof. Three excessively tall lancets beneath 2 smaller ones and eaves cornice. Flanking single storey aisles have doors recessed in cinquefoil arches. Buttresses at angles and to aisle walls. Steps and walls to front. Interior. Tall nave of 4 bays with giant drum piers and pointed arches; coffered wagon roof. Aisless chancel has east rose window with flowing tracery and 2 south windows of paired plain lancets beneath a multifoil oculus. Four trefoiled sedilia. Aisles have paired lancets and steep coffered roofs. C19 open timber lych gate at south west corner of churchyard with cruciform shingle roof and traceried side panels. Part of original 1851 church, burnt 1935. The church dominates the east aspect of the town. (Pevsner 2nd Ed Rev (1977) 102).
Listing NGR: TL4937421401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160972
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 102
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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