Church of All Saints
Church of All Saints, Main Street, West Ilsley
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210999
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- Church of All Saints, Main Street, West Ilsley
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210999
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of All Saints, Main Street, West Ilsley
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, Main Street, West Ilsley
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Ilsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU4734782491
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/01/2020
SU 48 SE
3/12
WEST ILSLEY
Main Street (south side)
Church of All Saints
[Formerly listed under HIGH STREET (south side)]
16.9.76
G.V.
II
Church. C14, extended and restored 1881. Knapped flint with Bath stone ashlar dressings, some brick dressings and part rendered south elevation; plain tiled roofs. Nave, chancel, north aisle, north porch, north transept; Diagonal buttresses with tiled caps, plinth, moulded stone string at cill level, gable parapets, stone bellcote to west end gable.
North elevation: to left gable transept with one two-light window in two-centred arch with stone drip mould, dated 1881 on cill, above door in two-centred arched opening; north aisle two two-light windows in two-centred arches with drip moulds to left of gabled porch with two-centred arched opening over north doorway which has stone two-centred arch with cusped trefoiled head and wide chamfered reveals with leaf carvings and moulded plinth; single-light window to right.
South elevation: to left nave rendered with single-light window to far left, two-light window in centre and three-light window to right, these have cusped ogee heads to lights under square headed openings and drip moulds; to right chancel flint with brick dressings, two-light window to left of door in segmental arch under label mould.
Interior: Walls plastered with stone dressings. Nave: four bays, plain collared trusses, two butt purlins with curved wind braces to the upper one, four bay arcade to north aisle of two-centred arches, chamfered and recessed, on short columns with leaf caps, three windows on south wall have two-centred rear arches with roll moulds at their edges. Chancel; three bays, collared trusses with carved pendants at springing central one bears timber plaques with "E / EM" on the north and 1659 on the south, two-centred arched opening to transept on north now encloses organ.
Fittings: C19 carved screen with cross between chancel and nave. Pulpit of carved C17 timber panels. C19 stone octagonal font at west end of north aisle.
Listing NGR: SU4734782491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395591
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 264
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 32
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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