Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1288641
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH END
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1288641
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH END
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, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hillesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 68569 28753
Details
SP 62 NL HILLESDEN CHURCH END
3/15 Church of All Saints 13.7.66
GV I
Parish Church. Mid C15 W. tower of rubble stone. Remainder rebuilt after 1493 in ashlar, restored 1874-5 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and again in 1960. Lead roofs. Cruciform plan with aisles, N. porch, chapel to N. of chancel and vestry with octagonal stair turret to NE. Very fine Perpendicular church with moulded plinth, buttresses hood-moulds, plain parapet to nave and remainder embattled with ornamental blind tracery and crocketted finials to N. porch, chancel, chapel, vestry and stair turret. Tower of 3 stages has 2-light traceried openings to bell chamber and to W. side over 4-centred moulded doorway. Nave has 3 bays of 5-light cusped windows forming continuously glazed clerestory. Aisles have triple uncusped lancets in 4-centred heads. Porch has 4-centred arch with carved foliage in spandrels and elaborate canopied niche above; interior has traceried wall panels and fan vault. Transepts, N. chapel and chancel have 4-light transomed Perpendicular windows, uncusped to N. and S. of transepts. Large E. window has 5 lights with transom and double traceried upper section. 2-storey vestry has single 4-centred lights to ground floor and 2-light cusped windows with flat hoods above. Stair turret has striking top with elaborate parapet and crocketted ogee arches to central finial. Interior: nave arcade of 3 bays has moulded 4-centred arches on piers with attached shafts. Taller similar arches to transepts and chancel. Chancel has 2 similar arches on 8-shafted piers to N. chapel, blind tracery panels to remaining walls and top frieze of carved half-angels holding scrolls or musical instruments. N. chapel has similar wall panels and squints to upper vestry. Flat plaster ceilings with wooden ribs. Piscinae in chancel and N. chapel have moulded corbels. Fittings: circular C13 font. Early C16 wooden screen with much restored elaborate tracery and rood loft on fans. Pews and choir stalls with linenfold ornament : some c16, restored and imitated C19. Similar low screen in N. chapel. C17 family pew in N. transept with strapwork and pedimented cartouches. C15-C16 doors. Fragments of early C16 glass in chancel and S. aisle; complete window to E. of S. transept. 1875 glass to S. window of transept. Painted coat of arms to left of E. window. 3 late C17 painted panels in tower with royal arms, Aaron and Moses. Monuments: In chancel: marble wall monument to Catharine Denton 1733 by H. Cheere with sarcophagus on plinth, flanking busts, urns and obelisk; wall tablet to Dr. William Denton, physician to Charles I and II 1691 with flanking Tuscan columns; tablet to George Woodward 1735. In N. chapel: altar tomb with recumbent effigies of Thomas Denton and wife 1560; elaborate wall monument to Alexander Denton 1576 with sarcophagus and surround of fluted Tuscan columns, triglyph entablature,bold cornice and pediment; wall tablets to Elizabeth Denton 1667, Thomas Isham 1676, Godfrey Boate mid c18.
RCHM II pp. 146-150
Listing NGR: SP6856928753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399142
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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