Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1966. Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
ragged-sentry-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Makerfield MP: Andy Burnham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of All Saints, Chapel Fields Lane
OS grid reference
SD 622 043
Coordinates
53.53413, -2.57059
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a church built in 1766, with a 20th-century vestry. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a pantile roof. The building is a six-bay rectangular structure with the vestry attached at the northeast corner. The round-headed windows feature keys and three pointed lights, though the sills show remnants that may indicate the presence of single mullions. The west facade has two windows, a shorter third window, and a louvred opening above. It is adorned with two stone pinnacles and a square open bell cote topped with a domical vault. The south facade includes four windows and an entrance on the west side, which is framed by a plain timber architrave, frieze, and cornice, leading to a 12-panel door. There are remains of an inscription on the frieze that records the original building date of 1641. The east facade features a five-light window and a louvred opening, while the north facade has an eastern entrance beneath a window and connects to the vestry.

Inside, the church has a cornice and flat ceiling. A west gallery supported by two iron columns features an entablature with a dentilled cornice and a plain parapet. The side galleries, added later, are supported by quatrefoil iron piers on high octagonal bases, with entablatures that have fluted friezes and dentilled cornices, also with plain parapets. The east end of the church has an apse with an organ loft on the right and an enclosed porch with a stair on the left. There is a 19th-century altar rail with traceried roundels, a 19th-century timber pulpit with arcading and figures, and two stalls with similar tracery. The octagonal timber font, dated 1881, features a timber relief panel depicting the flight into Egypt. Wall tablets in the galleries date from 1800 to 1840.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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