Parish Church of All Saints
Parish Church of All Saints, Warden Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274447
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of All Saints, Warden Road
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- 2001-10-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/04580/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274447
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of All Saints, Warden 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.
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, Warden Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Southill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14587 42231
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on the 22 May 2023 to include the inscription on the tomb of Admiral Byng and reformat the text to current standards
TL 1442
13/254
SOUTHILL
WARDEN ROAD
Parish Church of All Saints
31.10.66
GV
II*
Parish church. C14 and C15 details, mostly reworked 1814. Coursed ironstone rubble, with dressings in ironstone and limestone, alterations and additions in red brick. Some areas rendered. Chancel, nave, North aisle, South aisle, South porch, tower.
Chancel: three-light C15 East window, five-light window (also C15) and pointed arched single light to South, all reworked. Blocked pointed-arched doorway to South Chancel heightened in brick. Adjoining to North is sepulchral vault to the Byng-family, of rendered brick with round-headed doorway to East C19 chancel arch.
Nave: pointed arched five-bay arcades, with additional half bays to West, apparently C19. Clerestory, in brick, has four windows per side, all of two lights under four-centred head, with wood frames.
North aisle: two five-light C15 windows (reworked), C15 doorway with pointed head, and early C14 pointed-arched three-light window. Pointed doorway to West end. Doorway to East leading to Byng vault.
South aisle: four three-light C15 windows, again with reworked tracery. Blocked pointed doorway to East end, blocked pointed-arched window to West end. South porch: gabled, with pointed-arched entrance and angle buttresses. Chancel, nave, aisle and porch all have plain parapets.
West tower: C15, three stages, with square buttresses to East angles, clasping buttresses to West angles, and embattled parapet in brick. Pairs of two-light windows to each side of top stage, some small single lights to lower stages. West elevation has pointed arched door with a square head and traceried spandrels, surmounted by three-light window. Tower arch blocked.
Interior: roofs and seating all C19. Font, 1937 by Sir Albert Richardson. Variety of floor and wall monuments. Chancel memorials include floor slabs to John Nodes d.1666, Sir John Kelynge d.1680, and Mary Upwood d.1687.
North aisle wall monuments include one of white marble with draped urn to Lucy Waller d.1797, and one of polychrome marble with urn and festoons against an obelisk to John Ringstead d.1738, his wife Ann d.1757, and five children.
South aisle monuments include a polychrome marble tablet with urn and consoles, to Edward Dilly d.1779, and a grey marble aedicule with broken segmental pediment and foliate apron, to Nathanael Fowler d.1710.
Byng vault includes George Viscount Torrington, Rear Admiral of Great Britain, d.1732, and Admiral John Byng, executed 1757. The inscription on the tomb of Admiral Byng reads: ‘To the Perpetual Disgrace / of PUBLIC JUSTICE / The Hon. John Byng Esq. / Admiral of the Blue / Fell a Martyr to / POLITICAL PERSECUTION / March 14th in the Year 1757 whose / BRAVERY and LOYALTY / were Insufficient Securities / For the / Life and Honour / of a NAVAL OFFICER’.
Listing NGR: TL1458742231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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