Parish Church of All Saints
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH PATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1257209
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH PATH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1257209
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH PATH
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH PATH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85145 72092
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8472 CHURCH PATH, Highweek 1012-1/7/163 (East side) 16/07/49 Parish Church of All Saints
I
Parish Church. C15 (consecrated 1428); restored late C19, chancel rebuilt and extended in 1892; south aisle lengthened in 1892. MATERIALS: limestone rubble, mostly rendered, separate C20 crested slate roofs to nave and aisles. PLAN: aisled nave with chancel, south porch and west tower. EXTERIOR: moulded kneelers to copings of gable parapets. The C19 chancel has a 5-light window with geometric tracery, and a C19 parapeted vestry to the north-east corner with lancet windows and semicircular doorway. The rendered north aisle has 3 irregularly-spaced 3-light C15 windows with panel tracery; 2 pointed-arched doors, one blocked. South side has 3-light Perpendicular-style east window to late C19 chapel; from east on aisle are 3-light late C19 Perpendicular-style window, 3 reset late C18 memorial tablets, 3 granite C15 Perpendicular 3-light windows and roll-moulded architrave to basket-arched window over moulded 4-centred arched doorway. The west tower, rendered, battlemented, with offset diagonal buttresses up to the parapet, is in 3 stages. The third stage has label moulds over paired Tudor-arched louvres, the second stage is plain and the first stage has a loophole above a 3-light window of 2 pointed-arched lights flanking a central flat-arched light all set in an unmoulded Tudor arch. Below is a small plain chamfered pointed arch, probably C15 over C19 double doors. The south porch forms the west bay of the south aisle. INTERIOR: chancel has Ten Commandments flanking east window and C19 side arches including trefoil-headed 3-bay recess. 4-bay nave has granite Pevsner A-type columns with moulded arches to south and B-type columns with chamfered arches of 2 orders to north. Restored C15 wagon roofs to aisles, with moulded ribs and foliate bosses; nave roof rebuilt C19. C15 font with tracery patterns on pillar and bowl. FITTINGS: plain late C19 pews and wrought-iron altar rail and brass eagle lectern. MEMORIALS: include Walter Wemyss Leslie, d1863, by Pickering of Carlisle and Elizabeth Hocombe d1780 with urn in bracketed pediment and black marble tablet. STAINED GLASS: late C19 stained glass, except some medieval stained glass to the top of a north window. HISTORY: the church was a chapel of ease until 1864. (BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 584).
Listing NGR: SX8514772090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 584
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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