Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WHITCHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1230337
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WHITCHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1230337
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WHITCHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WHITCHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Handley
National Grid Reference:
SJ 46630 57880

Details

SJ 45 NE HANDLEY C.P. WHITCHURCH ROAD (East Side)

5/72 Church of All Saints.

1/3/1967

GV II*

Church: tower dated 1512, roof dated 1661 but re-used in restoration of 1853-5 by James Harrison, chancel and vestry of 1891. Ashlar red sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 3-bay nave, l-bay chancel, 3-stage west tower, vestry and south porch. 2-centred arched entrance to porch and rectangular 3-light and pointed 2-light windows in Decorated style in nave. Chancel has a lancet and 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. Tower has diagonal buttresses and 4-centred head to west door under label mould with carved head stops. 3-light west window breaks bond with carved heads and has a crocketted ogee hood. A tablet to either side reads: "Hoc ca' panile f'x'm' e' a' d'ni MCCCCXII t'p'e R'c'i raulinso, rectoris ac prooibus b'n'facto ribus ejusdem orate." Above are 2 empty niches. Similar 3-light louvred bell openings and gargoyles support embattled parapet. Interior: Good hammerbeam roof to nave, carved brackets carry inscription RD 1661, JE 1661 and wind-braced purlins. Edges of all main members picked out in black and white. Narrow chamfered chancel arch on engaged octagonal columns. Similar but taller arch to tower. Octagonal font on restored octagonal shaft. The tower closely resembles that at St Alban's, Tattenhall (q.v.) and has the same mason's marks.

Listing NGR: SJ4663057880

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Legacy System number:
405146
Legacy System:
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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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