Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320141
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1966
- 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:
- 1320141
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1966
- 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:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wing
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88029 22582
Details
SP 82 SE WING CHURCH STREET
6/95 Church of All Saints
18.10.66 I
Parish. church. Originally C10 with nave, N. aisle, chancel and crypt surviving from this period. Probably built for Aelfgifa, sister-in-law to King Eadgar. S. aisle rebuilt C14. C15 S. porch,W. tower and clerestory. N. porch rebuilt C19, and church restored 1848-9, 1893-4 and 1939-40. Coursed Limestone and greensand rubble, dressed stone parapets, lead roofs. W. tower of 3 stages has battlemented parapet with carved gargoyles, angle buttresses, moulded plinth and 3-light traceried openings to bell-chamber. W. side has large 4-light traceried perpendicular window, smaller 2-light window above, and door in 2-centred arch with blind tracery to spandrels. Nave has 4-bay clerestory of 2-light traceried windows with flat heads, the W. bay having taller windows with depressed arches, and battlemented parapet with carved stone figures below. Aisles have plain parapets with similar carved figures. S. aisle has regular C15 traceried windows, 3 2-light to S., one to W., and 3-light to E. Irregular C15 2- and 3-light windows to N. aisle, with 3-light Perpendicular window over blocked C10 arch at E. end. Porches have plain parapets, 2-centred arches and a pair of 2-light traceried windows to each side. N. arch has ornamental fleurons. S. porch is more elaborate with crocketted finials, carved animal figures below parapet, and carved heraldic angels and foliage to spandrels. Seven- sided apse, each side having blind semi-circular arch on narrow angle pilasters with gable motif above and altered parapet. N. and S. sides each have 3-light cusped window, E. side has higher 3-light traceried window with transom. S.side also has off-side lancet and entry to crypt. Crypt is roughly vaulted with ambulatory around small central chamber. Interior: Tall moulded tower arch on piers with attached shafts. Nave has 3 bays of unmoulded semi-circular C10 arches on large rectangular piers with off-set imposts. W. bay has smaller C10 arches above main arcade, probably oncethe entrances to a W. gallery, one now blocked. 4tn bay to E. was altered C13, and has double chamfered arches. 4-centred arch to rood-loft in S. wall. E. wall of nave has C10 window with 2 round arches on central column with cushion capital. Fine C15 nave roof with moulded tie and cross beams,carved bosses, carved angel king-posts and alternately tall and short carved figure corbels. Aisle roofs also C15 with moulded beams. S. aisle has screened chapel with arched door and stairs to rood-loft. Wide C10 chancel arch, similar to nave arcade. Chancel has C15 pillar piscina with semi-octagonal shaft. Fittings: C15 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels containing instruments of the passion; early C17 pulpit with carved arcaded panels; medieval chest; pews mostly C15-C16, restored; C15-C16 screens to S. chapel and chancel, that to nave much restored,those to chapel with elaborate cusping; medieval board and stud doors; panel of C14 glass in S. chapel; glass by Kempe, 1901, in chancel. Monuments: fine classical monument to Sir Robert Dormer 1552, consisting of sarcophagus carved with bucrania and swags, small brass inscription panels, and canopy with ornately moulded entablature on paired Corinthian columns; chancel has large wall monuments, one to Sir William Dormer and wife 1590 with recumbent effigies, the other to his son , Sir Robert, and wife, early C17, with kneeling figures, both monuments with kneeling children, elaborate surrounds and railings; marble wall tablet in nave to Anna Sophia Dormer 1694/5 with bust in niche and mourning putti; also marble tablet to Henry Fynes 1758 with carved putto unveiling urn; other late C17 and C18 wall tablets; brass to Thomas Cotes, 1648, porter of Ascott Hall. RCHM II p. 331-335.
Listing NGR: SP8803222586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350841
- 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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