CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1374057
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1962
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:: I
List Entry Number:: 1374057
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1962
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.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: South Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston
National Grid Reference:: SJ 87240 12934

Details

SJ 81 SE; 5/82

LAPLEY C.P., LAPLEY

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

19.03.62

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Parish Church, on site of Benedictine Priory. C12, C13 and C15, red and white sandstone ashlar; brown tiled roofs (handmade over Chancel) with verge parapets. Nave, without aisles, slightly off axis, central tower and Chancel. Nave: C13 three bays with C13 style, restored, two-light pointed windows to the South and square-headed C15 two-light windows to the North. Late C19 arched west door, pointed four-light window over; arch to blocked door visible to south side and also blocked arch to possible chapel. Tower: mainly C15, of four stages with set-back buttresses of three tiers to two stages flanking blocked transept arches; string course with gargoyles at angles below and over top stage, frieze of blind quatrefoil tracery under crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Late C19 two-light mullioned windows to lower stages, moulded quatrefoil opening below three-light, pointed, louvred bell chamber windows with panel tracery and labels. Chancel: C12, of three bays with pilaster buttresses, of two tiers at angles. Restored C12 window to south and blocked C12 door to north; simple C13 Y tracery C13 window to south and five-light pointed window to east end.

INTERIOR: Restored C12 round arch on simple imposts to east of nave, with similarly restored pointed arch to Chancel. Early C19 nave roof; braced, shouldered king-post trusses and tension straps to ties; late C19 trussed-rafter chancel roof. Remains of mediaeval tiled floor adjacent to sedilia. C13 trefoil headed piscina and arcaded pointed arched sedilia, both set on lower original floor level; font, C19, Dutch, octagonal with carved bas-relief panels; pulpit, hexagonal with carved bas-relief panels; Jacobean communion rail; timber chancel screen, damaged by fire; Late C19 stained glass to south side. MONUMENTS: Two early C19 marble and slate plaques depicting sarcophagi to north wall of chancel and incised floor tomb slab of 1500 to chancel floor; C19 figure of Virgin on corbel to east of tower; small fragment of mediaeval painting on north wall of nave in red, depicting scrolls; oil painting of Moses and Aaron with Exodus texts to south wall of nave; large poor board to north. Furniture: Two large carved oak chests, possibly German, one dated 1793, but of late mediaeval design, both in chancel.

Listing NGR: SJ8723912932

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Legacy System number:: 271545
Legacy System:: LBS

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