Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- scattered-bronze-nightshade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Whitchurch Road, Handley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 466 578
- Coordinates
- 53.11543, -2.79882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building featuring a tower dated 1512 and a roof dated 1661, which was reused during restoration work carried out between 1853 and 1855 by James Harrison. The church includes a chancel and vestry added in 1891. It is constructed from ashlar red sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. The layout consists of a 3-bay nave, a 1-bay chancel, a 3-stage west tower, a vestry, and a south porch.
The porch has a 2-centred arched entrance, while the nave features rectangular 3-light and pointed 2-light windows designed in the Decorated style. The chancel contains a lancet window and a 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a west door with a 4-centred head under a label mould adorned with carved head stops. A 3-light west window, which breaks the bond, is topped with a crocketted ogee hood and flanked by tablets that read: "Hoc ca' panile f'x'm' e' a' d'ni MCCCCXII t'p'e R'c'i raulinso, rectoris ac prooibus b'n'facto ribus ejusdem orate." Above this are two empty niches. The tower also features similar 3-light louvred bell openings and gargoyles that support an embattled parapet.
Inside, the church boasts a good hammerbeam roof in the nave, with carved brackets displaying the inscriptions RD 1661 and JE 1661, along with wind-braced purlins. The edges of all main structural members are highlighted in black and white. The chancel arch is narrow and chamfered, supported by engaged octagonal columns, while a similar but taller arch leads to the tower. The octagonal font is set on a restored octagonal shaft. The tower shares a close resemblance to that at St Alban's, Tattenhall, and features the same mason's marks.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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