CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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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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CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE

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BECKINGTON CHURCH LANE CHURCH LANE E SK2ONE (North side)

2/98 Church of All Saints

22/07/53

GV ll

Church. Mid/lat C13 chancel, remodelled and remainder rebuilt early mid C14. Restored and tower largely rebuilt 1883. Regular coursed sandstone. Old plain-tile roofs have coped gable parapets. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Decorated and Perpendicular styles 2-bay chancel 3-bay nave. Splay plinths and cornices throughout. Chancel has deep angle buttresses. 5-light east window has cusped intersecting tracery, but with a quatrefoil replacing the top intersection. North side has chamfered ogee-arched western doorway with plank dour, Blocked eastern lancert. Central 3-light C19 window has intersecting tracery. South side has 2 largely renewed windows with cusped Y-tracery and chamfered ogee low-side lancet. Porch has doorway of 2 segmental -pointed chamfered orders with plain jambs. Simple chamfered ogee doorway inside has duubie-le.3f dorm+ Have has low buttresses to east and west corners. 3-light eastern windows to north and south with renewed cusped intersecting tracery, and western windows with cusped Y-tracery. South side has slate slab with incised decoration and inscription to Benjamin Shelton 1782. North side has buttress between windows. Blocked ogee doorway Tower of 3 stages has splay and moulded plinth, and splay string courses. First stage has tall 2-light ogee west window, with string course forming hood mould. Second stage has lancet slit with deep splays. Bell chamber ties 2-light openings with a variation of Y-tracery C15 parapet and spire has blind arcading of trefoiled arches. Spire has 2 tiers of lucarnes. South side has slit lancet to second stage, Interior: chancel has trefoiled piscina with hood mould. Low recess in north wall. C19 wagon roof. Chancel arch of 2 continuous chamfered orders. Nave has piscina. C19 crown post roof. Tower arch of 2 segmental pointed chamfered orders. Fittings: screen made up of the tracery from the dado panels of a C15 screen. Late C19 octagonal font; pulpit and coronas. Monuments: defaced early C14 effigy of a lady in north recess, Mail monument above; Robert Burdett 1603. Kneeling figures face each other beneath 2 arches, with composite columns, obelisks and strapwork; apron of part-coloured alabaster. 2 late C18 architectural tablets. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p393; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol lV, pp199-200)

Listing NGR: SK2601807417

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 199-200
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981)

National Grid Reference: SK 26018 07417

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