Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1312508
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1312508
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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 STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shillington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 12377 33941
Details
TL 1233 SHILLINGTON & CHURCH STREET(North Side) STONDON 19/80 23.1.61 Church of All Saints
GV I
Parish Church. Predominantly C14, with C18 tower,and C19 tracery to many windows. Coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Parts of tower and other patches of repair in red brick. Chancel, N and S chapels, nave, N and S aisles,S porch, W tower. Externally no distinction between chancel and nave clerestories or between chapels and aisles. Total clerestory has 6 windows per side, all of 2-lights with pointed heads, 3 lighting nave, 3 lighting chancel. Combined aisles and chapels have to each side 3 3-light windows and one 2-light window, the tracery varying on each side but matched by that on opposite side of church. Chancel: 3-bay arcades each side, E bay of both blocked to springing level. E end of chancel has vaulted crypt necessitated by sloping site. 4-light pointed arched E window is C15 insertion within larger original winnow opening. Plain parapet above has carvings of an ass and a tun, the rebus of Matthew Asscheton (see below). Flanking window are 2 embattled rectangular turrets containing stairs to roofs. Pointed chancel arch. N. and S Chapels: each of 3 bays. Each has 3-light E window, S one with cambered head, N one with pointed head. N chapel has small N door to E bay. S chapel has single light to E bay and small pointed S door to W bay. Pointed chapel arches. Nave: 4-bay arcades to both sides. N and S aisles: each has 2 windows. Each has C14 pointed arched doorway in W bay, the S one enclosed within C19 gabled porch. This replaced original 2-storeyed porch, of which ogee-headed staircase doorway is retained of door. At W end of S aisle is blocked C15 4-centred doorway. W tower: rebuilt 1750 after collapse of original one earlier in century. Retains original tower arch. 3 stages, upper of 2 of brick. Diagonal buttresses to W angles. Bell-stage has round-headed louvred window to each side. 2-light W window with C19 Gothic tracery to ground stage. Plain parapets throughout building. Interior: heavily restored octagonal font. C19 roofs, although re-using some original timbers. Good screens to chapel and chancel arches and enclosing chancel, mostly C15 with some C19 panels. Some medieval pewing, including some N aisle ones with re-used screen panels. N chapel has fine brass to Matthew Asscheton, Rector of Shillington (d,1400)and another C15 one to a priest. Floor slab to James Hanscombe, d.1660. Wall tablet to John Briscoe (d.1766) and Longueville family, of white and gray marble, with putti to apron.
Listing NGR: TL1237733941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37869
- 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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