Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299178
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299178
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH 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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longhope
- National Grid Reference:
- SO6845719798
Details
SO 61 NE
6/107
LONGHOPE
CHURCH ROAD
(east side)
Church of All Saints
GV
II*
Parish church: C12, C14, C15, C19 restoration. Random rubble,
irregular larger stone quoins to transepts and chancel, better
squared to upper part of tower, ashlar to parapet; tiled roof.
Nave, transepts, chancel, west tower, south porch, vestry. Tower,
four stages with plain string courses: lowest central pilaster
buttress, to right doorway, radiating voussoirs above semi-circular
headed lintel with steep segmental soffit. Tapered lancet with
square-head second stage; trefoil head to lancet third stage, 2-
light window with stone louvres top. Moulded string with corner
gargoyles set diagonally, above crenellated parapet, with crocketed
corner finials. Nave, moulded stone and timber eaves on timber
corbels: buttress on left, blocked round-headed window, to right
carved head over ridge of porch roof, beyond 2-light reticulated
tracery window. Porch gabled, plain, chamfered doorway, flat-
headed single light above, with above an angled sundial. South
transept, cross-gabled apex to gable with remains of cross: 2-
light Y tracery window with hoodmould. Chancel, blocked priest's
door on left, single lancet to right; below Arrowsmith monument,
early C18, lettering recut, above half pyramid. 3-light C19
window with reticulated tracery; below top of arch appears at
ground level: blocked lancet to right.
Interior: wide, plain arches to transepts, flat plaster ceiling to
nave. Brass standards for earlier lighting remain. Royal Arms
(William III) over south door: Decalogue, Pater Noster and Creed
on two trompe l'oeil diptychs on painted boards, early C19.
Recumbent effigy of priest in North Transept. Restored 1869 by A.
W. Maberly; battlements later replaced spire. (D. Verey,
Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; old
photograph in vestry).
Listing NGR: SO6845719798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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