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
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of All Saints, All Saints Road, Shildon, DL4 2JT
OS grid reference
NZ 232 253
Coordinates
54.62245, -1.6417
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

Church of All Saints receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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