Church of All Saints

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FALMOUTH

SW8032SW KILLIGREW STREET 843-1/9/139 (South East side) 23/01/73 Church of All Saints (Formerly Listed as: KILLIGREW ROAD All Saints Church)

GV II*

Anglican church. 1887-90, by JD Sedding, on a site presented by the Earl of Kimberley, the foundation stone laid November 2nd 1887 by the Prince of Wales; consecrated in 1890 by the Bishop of Barbados, acting for the Bishop of Truro; north transept extended 1926. Grey Plymouth limestone, brought to course with Ham Hill and Doulting dressings including windows with tracery, those to aisles and transepts with hood-moulds, impost strings and sill strings; plinth string, weatherings to buttresses and gable copings; steep asbestos slate roofs; stone stack to south-east corner of south transept; steep roof over octagonal bellcote to east side of north transept and small turret to north-east corner. PLAN: nave with narrow aisles, equal transepts flanking chancel; porch/vestries to inner east angles, the north-east vestry over a crypt; north entrance via north porch in angle with transept and projecting west entrance. EXTERIOR: free Gothic style. Bays divided by large buttresses with long offsets; 5 stepped lancets under round arch to east end; lean-to between flanking buttresses and same eaves line to hip-roofed porch/vestry on either side. West end has 3 lancets between deep buttresses partly encased by lean-to porch/narthex with central doorway; blind rose window to gable. 4-bay aisles with 3-light traceried windows and 2-light traceried window to each transept. All openings with pointed arches except for 2 x 2-light windows and single light at east end and round-headed slits under oculi to bellcote. INTERIOR: 4:1 bays; round-arched freestone and brought-to-course stonework arcades on chamfered and moulded piers; boarded barrel ceiling with thin ribs on bracketed wallplate to nave/chancel; similar ceilings on moulded wallplates to transepts; plaster panelled ceilings with diaphragm arches and corbels to inner sides over aisles; plastered outer walls. FITTINGS: 1895 pulpit of alabaster and marble, presented by Major Bowyer in memory of his sister; large elaborate freestone and alabaster Perpendicular style reredos of 1910 with the Ascension flanked by panels including the Apostles, Cornish Celtic Saints and historical figures all within ogee-arched panels with trailing vine cornices and cresting above; simple square marble font with wooden cover on a fat round central shaft and 4 slender corner shafts; large American organ originally built 1894 by Hele of Plymouth and later enlarged; late C19 or early C20 Gothic style oak choir stalls with ogee arches and linenfold detail; original brass and mahogany communion rail: Lady Chapel (north transept) has altar with carved wooden canopy above and a fine carving of Virgin and Child, both of 1926 by Miss Pinwell. Stained glass includes west window by Pownell of Falmouth. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cornwall: London: 1951-1970: 67; Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105; Church Guide).























Listing NGR: SW8030932441

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Sources

Books and journals
Church of All Saints Church Guide Falmouth, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 67
Kellys Directory in Cornwall, (1910), 105

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