Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1383775
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1383775
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1969
- 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:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Richard's Castle (Shropshire)
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 49431 70658
Details
RICHARDS CASTLE
SO47SE BATCHCOTT
482-1/8/159 Church of All Saints
28/10/69
I
Parish church. 1892. By Richard Norman Shaw. Coursed
rusticated Grinshill sandstone with ashlar dressings. Plain
tiles with ashlar coped gables.
PLAN: chancel, 3-bay nave with south aisle, south-west tower
and north porch. 2-bay chancel with north vestry and south
choir vestry. 3-stage tower incorporating south porch.
EXTERIOR: chancel with 2 straight-headed Decorated-style
windows with reticulated tracery to each of the north and
south walls. Early Perpendicular-style 5-light east window.
Angle buttresses. Vestries form a substructure to the west end
of chancel with the wall of the organ loft breaking the
chancel eaves line and rising to a raised battlemented
parapet. Nave north wall with three 3-light cusped windows
with reticulated tracery in Decorated style.
Perpendicular-style west window of 5 cusped lancets. South
aisle has 3 windows similar to the chancel. West window of the
aisle in Decorated style with 3 cusped lancets and reticulated
tracery, the east window with 2 cusped lancets with
quatrefoil. Gabled north porch. Tower with diagonal buttresses
to first stage. Battlemented parapet with pyramid roof. Upper
stage set back at high level with corner pinnacles rising from
the set-off. Wide pointed archway over 2 flights of entrance
steps to south door. Stair turret to west. Simple 4-light
stone mullioned window to south. Each face of the bell stage
with double louvred windows of 2 cusped lancets with
quatrefoil.
INTERIOR: chancel roof of 5 arched braced trusses with plain
double purlins and ridge. Sedilia and piscina. Vestry doorways
have alternating boss carvings covering 3 intrados bands under
a hoodmould with figurative label stops. Pointed chancel arch
on foliated capitals. Nave roof of 8 trusses similar to
chancel roof. South arcade of 3-bay pointed arches on
unadorned columns. Oak pews, pulpit and doors by Norman Shaw.
Reredos in medieval Burgundian style by Charles Buckeridge.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth:
1958-: 69).
Listing NGR: SO4943370658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 69
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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