CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1252599
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Seckington
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 26018 07417
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing