CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1344603
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1344603
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chipstable
National Grid Reference:: ST 04267 27140

Details

ST02NW CHIPSTABLE CP CHHIPSTABLE VILLAGE 1/6 Church of All Saints 25.1.56

GV II*

Parish church, C15 tower restored 1859, nave, aisle and porch rebuilt 1869 by Benjamin Ferrey incorporating piers of original arcade. Red sandstone coursed rubble, Ham stone dressings, chamfered plinth, plain clay tiled roofs, coped verges with crosses at apeces except on porch. West tower with south-east stair turret, 2-bay south aisle, south porch, chancel with south chapel and south-east vestry. Crenellated 3-stage tower, enlarged central merlon with pierced panels on south and north sides, set back buttresses rising to string course with gargoyles, 2-light cinquefoil headed bell-openings with Somerset tracery, string course, string course above west window rises to a gable over 3-light window, continuous hood mould over finely moulded 4-centred arch C15 dorway, C19 door, crenellated stair turret; 3-light west window to buttressed south aisle, all windows with hoodmoulds and face terminals, single storey gabled porch, buttresses, pointed arch outer doorway, exagerated trefoil headed inner doorway with trefoil headed door, 2-light windows on returns; two 2-light windows right priests door, 2-light east window to vestry, diagonal buttresses at east end with colonnettes in angles, 3-light east windows 2 lancets and two 2-light windows on buttressed north front with lancet at west end where setback buttress of tower built into nave wall. Interior: rendered. C19 moulded arches dying into imposts to chancel and chapel, pointed tower arch with trefoil headed panelled jambs. Two original Perpendicular piers and west respond, angel capitals, recut eastern respond, carrying C19 Perpendicular style arches. C19 waggon roofs, ribbed and boarded with bosses. Chamfered Tudor arch to stair turret doorway. C19 fittings including panelled screen to vestry, font with brass ewer - stone pulpit and C19 benches incorporating parts of C16 bench ends. Early C20 carved oak lectern. C19 stained glass, east window in memory of deceased 1884. Harmonium. The arcade is said to incorporate the arms of the Bluet family who were lords of the manor. (VCH, Somerset, vol V, 1985: Kellys Directory, 1914).

Listing NGR: ST0426727140

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 271160
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
'Kelly's Directory' in Kelly's Directory, (1914)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.