Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1371514
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1371514
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- 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.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton Cheney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49851 42032
Details
MIDDLETON CHENEY CHURCH LANE SP4942 (East side) 11/165 Church of All Saints 04/02/69 GV I
Church. Early C14 with Perpendicular tower. Restored 1865 by Sir G.G. Scott. Squared uncoursed ironstone and ironstone ashlar, lead and stone slate roofs. Chancel with north vestry, aisled nave with clerestory. South porch, west tower. Windows in chancel and aisles all have early C14 geometric tracery (some renewed C19). 4-light east window in chancel, 2-light windows in side walls. 3-light east windows in aisles, 2-light windows in side walls. C14 gabled south porch with stone vault carried on transverse arch with head corbels and tracery motifs above it. Inner doorway, early C14, has jamb shafts with bell capitals and hood with head stops. Medieval studded plank door with its original wicket. North doorway C14, with continuous mouldings. West tower of 3 stages, has cornice with gargoyles; castellated parapet with blind tracery and a pair of pinnacles at each corner linked to the octagonal spine by flying buttresses. Elaborately carved west doorway has continuous mouldings set with rosettes flanked by small figures of the Virgin Mary and angel Gabriel. Square hood with a frieze of angels with outspread wings. 3-light window above with panel tracery and 2-light traceried bell openings. Interior: Piscina in chancel has cusped arch and gabled hood with head stops. C14 chancel arch, responds altered C19. 4-bay nave arcades with quatrefoil piers, arches of 2 orders and hoods with head stops. Perpendicular roofs in chancel and nave have stone head corbels and C19 painted decoration. Perpendicular font, octagonal, carved with rosettes. Perpendicular polygonal pulpit with blind tracery and C19 painted decoration. Perpendicular chancel screen with cresting by Sir G.G. Scott. Benches Perpendicular. Mosaics at west ends of aisles by Powell and Son, that in north aisle designed by Holiday. Important collection of stained glass by the William Morris firm. East window of chancel. 1864-5 designed by William Morris, Philip Mebb, E Burne-Jones and Ford Maddox Brown, who also designed other windows in the chancel and aisles. Burne-Jones was a friend of the vicar W.C. Buckley (died 1892). He designed his own memorial window in the chancel in collaboration with Burne-Jones. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 304-6; A.C. Sewter: The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, Yale 1974-5, 2 Vols. Catalogue volume, p.133-134).
Listing NGR: SP4985142032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234436
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sewter, A, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, (1975), 133-134
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 304-6
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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