Church Of All Saints

SJ 37 SE SAUGHALL C.P. CHURCH ROAD (North Side)

4/22 Church of All Saints.

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Church: 1895-96 by Medland Taylor but not completed until 1910 when chancel, apse and north aisle added. Flemish bond red Ruabon bricks red tile roof with Lakeland green slate on the tower. 4-bay nave and north aisle, south porch, short chancel with polygonal apse, and vestry on south side to give the impression of a crossing. Low crossing tower with broached spire. Nave windows are chamfered triple lancets. Porch at left end has chamfered and rebated doorcase with stone springers. Apse on brick plinth has sill band and some faint diapering. 2-light windows, the east window raised with quatrefoil plate tracery. North aisle has 2 and 4-light lines of lancets and west end, a projecting baptistery. Tower has brick corbel table and louvred opening in the spire. Interior: brick, glazed below sill level, and some sandstone dressings. 4-bay arcade of rebated arches on plain piers with stone springers to north aisle. Nave windows in recesses with arches of different centring forming hoods. Arch-braced collar roof sprung from stone corbels. Similar recesses to aisle windows but with hoods formed by pairs of segmental arches on a plain pier. Lean-to roof has purlin braced from a short king post. Rebated arches to chancel, apse and to organ loft and vestry to the sides. Apse roof has painting of the Angel appearing to The Shepherds by Herman Salamon.

Listing NGR: SJ3633270441