Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- dark-cornice-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a chapel, now serving as the parish church, likely dating from the 12th century. It was enlarged in the 14th century and refitted in the late 15th century, undergoing substantial restoration and extension in 1853. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and a tile roof. It comprises a chancel and nave unified as one space, a 19th-century north vestry, and a 17th-century south porch.
The south wall of the nave has four bays, featuring two trefoiled lancet windows to the west end, followed by the south porch and a window of three ogee trefoil lights to the east. The timber-framed south porch has ornamental struts above the tie-beam of the gable truss, with the walls divided into two bays, each containing a two-light opening. A trefoiled lancet window is located in the west gable, above which is an ogee trefoil bellcote. The north wall has three bays, the central one occupied by the 19th-century vestry. West of the vestry is a window of two ogee trefoil lights, and to the east a trefoiled lancet. The north window of the vestry contains three trefoiled lights, and the east door has a trefoil head. The chancel is a single bay, with a small semi-circular headed window in the north wall and a trefoiled lancet in the south wall. The east window is of three stepped ogee trefoil lights with an ogee label.
Inside, the door to the north vestry has a trefoiled head. A sedile is set into the south wall of the chancel, featuring an ogee trefoil head, alongside a square-headed locker to the east. The roofs are likely from the late 15th century; the chancel roof is of one main bay, subdivided by two arch-braced collar trusses with cusped wind-braces forming quatrefoils. The nave roof has two-and-a-half bays with moulded tie-beams, arched braced collars above, and moulded purlins. Wall-plates throughout are moulded and embattled. An oak screen separates the nave and chancel, with a central doorway flanked by five bays on each side. The doorway has a four-centred head with traceried spandrels, and the other bays have open upper panels with ogee trefoil heads, topped by a moulded cornice and coved loft. The front beam of the loft is carved with two bands of foliage, and the lower beam has pendant brattishing of fleurs-de-lys. The boarded cove is panelled with moulded ribs and carved bosses at the intersections. A wall tablet on the north wall of the chancel is framed by elaborate carved foliage and surmounted by a coat of arms. The tablet contains inscriptions commemorating Jos Coates, who died in 1793, and his wife Mary, who died in 1799, describing them as a good husband, father, master, wife, mother, and Christian, and noting their contributions to the surrounding landscape.
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