Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- blind-thatch-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Elstob Lane, Great Stainton
- OS grid reference
- NZ 335 221
- Coordinates
- 54.59365, -1.482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church built between 1876 and 1878 by architect J.P. Pritchett. It is constructed of squared, rock-faced sandstone in narrow courses and features graduated green slate roofs. The church has a west tower topped with a spire, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel that includes a combined organ chamber and vestry on the north side. The architectural style is Decorated, characterized by mainly 2-light windows that have cinquefoil-headed lights and cusped quatrefoils beneath hoodmoulds with headstops.
The tower is angle-buttressed and consists of three stages, featuring trefoil-headed lancets on the second stage and 2-light louvred bell openings above. The tall broach spire adds to the structure's height. The nave, which has three bays, and the narrower chancel with two bays both have chamfered plinths, offset sill bands, and steeply-pitched roofs with coped gables. The east end has a foundation stone laid on June 6th, 1876, and a 3-light window in the angle-buttressed wall. The gabled porch has a moulded pointed doorway and trefoil-headed lancets on the returns. The organ chamber/vestry has a monopitch roof, a lancet window on the south, and a pointed doorway on the east.
Inside, the church features a plain and plastered interior with encaustic-tiled floors. The pointed moulded chancel arch is supported by detached marble demi-columns with stiff-leaf capitals and has a sundial re-set above it. There are pointed chamfered arches leading to the organ chamber and the baptistery, which is located at the west end beneath the tower. The roofs are supported by arch-braced trusses. In the baptistery, there are two stone fonts: one medieval with a moulded base, cylindrical stem, and an octagonal-plan cup-shaped bowl, and another from the late 19th century. The walls of the baptistery also display 17th-century wall monuments and fragments of medieval grave slabs. Additionally, a fragment of a possibly 10th-century cross shaft, decorated with complex interlacing patterns, is located under a bench in the porch.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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