Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321269
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321269
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dean and Shelton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 04679 67640
Details
TL 0467 DEAN AND SHELTON HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE), UPPER DEAN
7/74 Church of All Saints
13.7.64
GV I
Parish Church. C14, remodelled C15. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings. West tower, nave, North and South aisles, South porch, North and South chapels, chancel. C14 3-stage West tower has octagonal spire with lucarnes, plain parapet with frieze of grotesque heads beneath and gargoyle to centre of each side. Nave has 3-bay North and South arcades on C14 bases but raised later, probably when clerestory added in C15. North aisle, South aisle and South porch remodelled C15, North and South chapels added at same time. Embattled parapels to nave, aisles porch and chapels. Chapel East windows more elaborate than those to side walls. C13 chancel arch. C14 chancel has C15 windows. Exterior has projecting carved heads, 2 flanking East windows, one to South wall below plain parapet. Moulded 4-centred arches open onto North and South chapels. C15 nave and aisle roofs with angels carrying instruments of Passion and musical instruments. C14 octagonal font to South aisle. C14 canopied tomb recess to North aisle. C17 wall monuments to North and South chapels. Perpendicular wood pulpit. Elaborate medieval wood rood and chapel screens and Jacobean gate to rood screen. Pews also substantially medieval.
Listing NGR: TL0467967640
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36266
- 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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