Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1364710
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1364710
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 10919 62117
Details
ALTON ALTON PRIORS SU 16 SW 5/9 Church of All Saints 27.5.64 II*
Anglican parish church, now with the Redundant Churches Fund. C12, C14, C15 and C18. Limestone and malmstone rubble, ashlar to tower and chancel of brick. Lead and slate roofs. Nave with the west tower and C18 chancel set asymmetrically replacing medieval chancel in same position. Entrance under tower, the two side doors blocked. Two-light ogee square-headed windows to nave. West tower of 2 stages; angle buttresses and 3-light C15 west window with 2- light bell openings, all with deep casement mouldings. Chancel has low pitched roof-and 2-light windows. Interior: Tower arch tall and panelled, with C20 screen to nave. Nave wide, an aisle arcade probably removed. Three bays low pitched roof. Door to rood screen and small piscina. Cl2 chancel arch with beaded moulded imposts. Chancel of 3 bays with step to sanctuary and late C17 turned oak baluster rails. Font: C19. Limestone. Octagonal. C17 carved frontals to choir seating. Monuments: In sanctuary, chest tomb against north wall, 1590, limestone. Chest with frieze of plain shields. Raised aedicule over, with grey marble columns and flat pediment carrying crest in a roundel. In the centre an elaborate brass to Sir William Button, showing him rising from his coffin and gazing at the opening gates of heaven. Inscriptions. Also a floor brass of 1528. On the south wall, a white marble tablet of 1769 with a small crest, to Elizabeth Burroughs. Two C20 tablets in nave. Furniture: In sanctuary, C17 chair and early C18 altar table. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of Engand, Wiltshire, p88; Combined churches guide of 1970)
Listing NGR: SU1091962117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963), 88
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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