Church Of All Saints

GILMORTON SP5787 CHURCH DRIVE 1323-0 8/39 (West side) 11/01/55 Church of All Saints II*

Parish church. C14 and C15 tower, with nave, aisles and chancel of 1860-61, by William Smith. Porch 1897. Tower rebuilt in 1909 by C A Bassett-Smith. Granite facings to all except tower, with Attleborough and Ancaster stone dressings arranged slightly polychromatically. Random rubble stone tower with dressed stone octagonal spire. Plain slate roofs, separately over aisles, nave and chancel. West tower, nave with north and south aisles and north porch, and chancel with north lean-to vestry. Unbuttressed two-stage tower with crenellated parapet to octagonal broach spire with two levels of wooden lucarnes on the cardinal faces. Weather vane. Clock face on north side of spire. Taller nave roof, lower aisle and chancel roofs. Four aisle windows to south and north, all slightly different and in a vigorous early C14 style. Gabled north porch (dated 1897) to right with wave-moulded outer arch on three orders of columns. Simpler south door with double hollow-chamfered arch. East window of south aisle in form of three lights surmounted by three quatrefoils, east window of north aisle of three quatrefoils in roundel. Two-bay chancel with windows only to south. East window of three lights surmounted by roundel of four quatrefoils and with flanking trefoils. Interior: three-bay north and south arcades with polychromatic double-chamfered arches carried on round piers with differing capitals in French style C13 style. Double-chamfered tower arch with inner roll-moulding on octagonal piers. Fittings: mostly 1860-61, including pews, wooden pulpit and wrought-iron screen to Smith's design. Stained glass: east window, 1878, by Burlison and Grylls. Lady Chapel Ascension, 1896, by Shrigley and Hunt. All the rest by Kempe, and Kempe and Co, 1884-1906. Smith's stone-carver was Poole and wood-carver Forsyth. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Williamson E, Brandwood G: Leicestershire and Rutland: London: 1984-: 161).

Listing NGR: SP5701587868