Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1339061
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1339061
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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 LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 34140 32657
Details
HOUGHTON CHURCH LANE SU 3432 12/16 Church of All Saints 29/5/57 GV II* Parish church. Early C12 origins, C13 aisles, C14 chancel, C15 alterations, 1875 and 1882 restorations. Coursed flint with stone dressings, chancel rendered old plain tile roof. Plan of C14 chancel with C19 S vestry, C12/C13 nave with c1300 S aisle under outshot roof and N chapel, late C13 N aisle under separate roof, C19 S porch and C15 W bellcote with C19 spire. Chancel E window C19 reticulated 3-light window with label. Below against wall headstone 1699 to John Stubbs, rector. In centre of S wall pent-roofed vestry. To W C14 2-light reticulated window and C19 similar to E. N wall has 2 similar C14 windows, that to W shorter. Under E end of N aisle C18 vault with railings around stone steps to Portland stone arch. Above C13 squareheaded 2-light trefoiled window with label. In N wall C16 and C18 stepped buttresses each end and in centre. Each side of centre similar window. Towards W roundheaded N door. W window square- headed 2-light trefoiled. S aisle E window C19 2-light trefoiled window. On S wall C19 gable with 3-light trefoiled window. In centre C19 gable porch open to front with ornate timberwork. Inside late C12 roundheaded doorway of chamfered order and label, W window C14 squareheaded 2-light pointed window with label having curly ends. Nave W window C19 squareheaded 3-light cinquefoiled window. W weatherboarded bellcote with bell openings on each face of 2 trefoiled lights with quartrefoils above. Short broach spire. Inside chancel openings have C17 rear arches. At E restored remains of reredos, stone band cut each side of altar by half-octagonal pilasters. In SE trefoiled piscina with pointed label. NE stone shelf on brackets. In W jambs of W windows squints from aisles. Braced collar roof with ashlar pieces. Central moulded cambered tie. Rebuilt C13 2 chamfer order chancel arch on later wider square jambs. Nave has to N 2 bay aisle of c1300 slightly pointed and chamfered stilted arch on square resonds to E, length of wall, and pointed, chamfered C13 W arch on similar responds. S aisle c1300 pointed 3 bay, 2 chamfered order on round columns with plain capitals. Font C15 recut octagonal carved bowl on square 4 step base. Crown post roof with cambered, chamfered ties, and collar braces and ashlar pieces. W bay has C15 frame of 4 posts with 2 arched braces from each to support bell chamber. N aisle has timber lintels to windows, blocked N doorway has 3-centred rear arch. To SE corner pointed squint in respond. In wall in arcade trefoiled piscina. S aisle has squint through E column, corbels on capitals of other columns. Old roof altered C19, 3 centred rear arch to door. VCH; Vol3; 1908; p416-7.
Listing NGR: SU3418432646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 140687
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1908), 416-7
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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