Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, VILLAGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1382756
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1972
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, VILLAGE STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1382756
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1972
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, VILLAGE STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, VILLAGE STREET

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Luddington
National Grid Reference:
SP 16707 52499

Details

LUDDINGTON

SP15SE VILLAGE STREET
1931-1/4/64 (South side (off))
02/08/72 Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. 1871-72. By John Cotton. Coursed blue lias with
sandstone ashlar and buff brick dressings; tile roofs.
STYLE: Gothic.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel and 3-bay nave with north-east angle tower
and north porch.
EXTERIOR: off-set buttresses and coped gables. Chancel has
off-set angle buttresses; brick cornice and sill course;
3-light east window has hood with stops, foundation stone
below dated 1871 with cross in circle; 2 traceried lights to
north, and one to south next to canted vestry projection with
short finial and east entrance with shouldered lintel.
Nave has tower to north-east angle with diagonal buttress,
cinquefoil to east with dripstone and north lancet; string
course and broached octagonal stage with slots; pointed
bell-openings and swept slate spire with wind vane; north side
has 2-light window and lancet, open timber gabled porch has
trefoil-headed lights on low stone walls, enriched front
framing and bargeboards with finial; pierced-work inner
fascias; inner door has chamfered reveals and double-chamfered
arch to paired doors.
South side has 2-light window with flanking lancets.
West end has diagonal buttresses and lancets flanking tall
central buttress.
INTERIOR: chancel has coupled rafter roof, recess to organ
loft with vestry entrance to left and moulded chancel arch on
musical angel corbels, chancel steps with stencilled texts;
nave has scissor truss roof. Fittings: plain stalls and pews;
stone pulpit with cross and dog-tooth moulding, some remaining
paint; font from old church on reused churchyard cross base
with octagonal stage on square plinth and quatrefoil frieze.
Monuments: brass wall tablets, including one to west wall in
cusped arch with marble columns; inscription indecipherable.
Stained glass: a good and complete set of c1870 windows.
Church replaces one on site to north of village green,
believed to have been the place of William Shakespeare's
marriage.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 346; All Saints Church Luddington: Luddington:
1970-1990).



Listing NGR: SP1670752499

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Legacy System number:
483142
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 346
Luddington in All Saints Church Luddington, (1970-1990)

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