Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275361
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WESTERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275361
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WESTERN 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:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, WESTERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 05998 90422
Details
POOLE
SZ09SE WESTERN ROAD, Branksome Park 958-1/6/208 (West side) Church of All Saints
GV II
Church. 1875-77. By Burton and Stevens of Bournemouth. For Henry Bury. Porch added 1928. Coursed squared Purbeck stone with limestone dressings; tiled roof with ornamental crestings. PLAN: apsed chancel, vestry and organ chamber to NW of chancel, nave and W porch. Decorated Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2-bay chancel has 5-sided apse with offset buttresses terminating in trefoiled gablets and 2-light windows with cusped heads to lights, quatrefoil to head and hoodmoulds with label stops. A pair of similar windows to S side of chancel. 2-storey vestry and organ chamber to N side of chancel has hipped roof and paired lancet windows to E side at upper level, 3 similar lancets to N side, chamfered doorway to N and 3-light stone mullion window at lower level to W side; C20 extension to E side and offset angle buttresses. 5-bay nave has 2-light windows with cusped heads to lights and, alternately trefoils in spherical triangle and encircled quatrefoils to heads with hoodmould and label stops. Wheel window in W gable with 8 spokes, trefoiled heads to divisions and central quatrefoil. Pointed ventilation slit above and single bellcote to apex with stone-coped gable, kneelers and foliated gable cross. W door has 2 orders of shafts, double keel-moulded head and hoodmould. Now in porch with chamfered doorway to N and larger doorway to W with chamfered jambs, moulded head and hoodmould. Offset buttresses to W end of nave, similar buttresses between bays, stone-coped nave gables with kneelers and foliated gable cross to E end of nave. Plinth, chamfered stone eaves and corbel table to nave. INTERIOR: nave and chancel have pitch pine hammerbeam roofs resting on wall shafts. Chancel has 2-bay arcade at upper level to organ chamber with central pier of quatrefoil section and shafts to responds. Vestry door below with 1 order of shafts and keelmoulded head. Chancel arch has responds of trefoil section and many-moulded head. FITTINGS: limestone reredos to high altar with paired alabaster colonnettes pinnacles, corbel table and inset relief panel with Last Supper. Fine set of late C19 stained-glass windows to chancel depicting various saints, of uniform design. Stencilled walls below windows (renewed). Brass double corona chandelier. Low wrought-iron chancel screen on stone base, with brass enrichments. Matching brass lectern. Polygonal limestone pulpit with red marble shafts, and foliage ornament to cornice. Medieval font bowl from Church of St Edmund, Salisbury, of Purbeck marble. Bowl is octagonal, and has paired blank arches to sides with round trefoil heads; C19 circular stem with 4 short serpentine shafts, limestone foliage capitals and moulded bases, on octagonal plinth. HISTORICAL NOTE: the church was built for Henry Bury of Branksome Towers and the exclusive new suburb which he was developing on his estate, Branksome Park. The first incumbent, Edward Bury, was a member of the family. All Saints' is a very complete and well-furnished small church of the 1870s, little altered, in an unusually attractive setting. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-; All Saints' Church Branksome Park (guide leaflet): Poole: 1980-; Clarke, Canon B: Mss notes: 1977-1978).
Listing NGR: SZ0599890422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
Other
All Saints Church Branksome Park Guide Leaflet, (1980)
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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