Church Of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Church. 7 related planning applications.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- fossil-wall-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church built between 1868 and 1869 by architect J.P. Pritchett, with an early 20th-century narthex added later. It features rock-faced dressed sandstone on the exterior and a brick-lined interior. The roofs are covered with graduated green slate, while the narthex has a Welsh slate roof. The church includes a north-west tower, a nave with a western narthex, a chancel with an eastern apse, and north and south vestries. It is designed in the Early English style, characterized by a chamfered plinth and plate-tracery windows.
The tall and elaborate square-plan tower, which has an octagonal broach spire, is attached to the north-west bay of the nave. The lower stage of the tower is angle-buttressed and features a pointed-arched north doorway with small lancets above. The middle belfry stage has louvred lancets set in crocketed gablets, adorned with prominent gargoyles. The spire is decorated with four bands of stone fish-scale tiles.
The buttressed five-bay nave has two-light plate-tracery windows beneath pointed arches, with alternating rock-faced and ashlar voussoirs. The west end features a large sexfoil window, and the nave has a chamfered eaves band along with a very steeply-pitched roof and flat-coped gables. The narthex is buttressed and triple-gabled, showcasing a central quatrefoil flanked by groups of three lancets.
The chancel is lower and narrower, with a two-bay design and a buttressed semicircular apse that includes three lancets. A datestone dated April 13th, 1868, is located beneath the north-eastern lancet. The chancel also has a chamfered eaves band and a very steeply-pitched roof.
The vestries feature low, monopitch roofs with coped ends. The north vestry has a pair of trefoil-headed lancets and a stepped lateral stack.
Inside, the church has a plain, painted interior. The nave roof consists of four principal trusses with arch-braced collars, and the tall and wide pointed chancel arch is decorated with roll moulding and a hoodmould on headstops.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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