Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380264
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380264
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
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 HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30232 09087
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3009SW CHURCH HILL, Patcham
577-1/15/1001 (East side)
13/10/52 Church of All Saints
GV II*
Anglican church. Nave C12. tower C13 and chancel C14;
restorations 1824-5, 1856, 1883, 1898 and 1989; north aisle
and vestry added 1898. Flint with stone dressings, the walls
all rendered except for the north aisle and vestry, which are
of flint with brick bands and dressings; roof of tiles except
to tower which is slated. Chancel, nave, north aisle, west
tower, south porch and vestry.
EXTERIOR: east window of 3 lights with curvilinear tracery
under a hoodmould; 2 lancets with trefoiled heads on south
side of chancel; 2-light window with similar detailing to
nave, east of porch; then a 2-light window with ogee heads
under a flat hoodmould between porch and tower; east and west
angles of the nave buttressed; east window to north aisle of 3
lights with curvilinear tracery, and a louvre window in apex
of gable; 3 north windows, the easternmost as for east window
of north aisle; the 2 western windows are of 3 lights with
cinquefoil heads under a flat hoodmould, and one dates from
the first half of the C19; stones from what appears to be a
Norman doorway are in the north wall of the aisle; west window
of north aisle curvilinear. West tower with massive angle
buttressing at south-west corner; 3 narrow lancets in west
face of tower and splay-footed spire. Gabled south porch with
C14 pointed-arched entrance.
INTERIOR: chancel reordered 1989, leaving a panelled dado at
the east end and part of the side walls, of 1883 apart from
the 'reredos', made from choir stalls dismembered in 1989;
north wall has the chalk monument of Richard Shelley (died
1594) with grave-diggers flanking the family arms; chancel
roof boarded and panelled; the chancel arch is round-arched
with replacement impost blocks (1964) and a C13 wall-painting
of Christ in Judgment remaining in part above it, and revealed
in 1879; nave of 3 bays: octagonal piers with simplified
water-leaf capitals supporting pointed arches with an inner
order of stone, chamfered, and an outer order of moulded
brick; queen-post roof to nave, probably of late C16 date; the
level of the chancel floor extends into the nave following
reordering in 1989.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-;
Barrows A, Harben J & Oldfield E: All Saints' Patcham Church
Guide and Parish History: Brighton: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3023209087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harben, J, Oldfield, E, All Saints Patcham Church Guide and Parish History, (1990)
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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