Church Of All Saints

HEREFORD

SO5040SE HIGH STREET 683-1/6/181 (North side) 10/06/52 Church of All Saints

GV II*

Parish church. C13 and C14. Coursed rubble; ashlar sandstone; slate and tile roof; ashlar tower and spire. Nave; chancel; south aisles; tower with spire; north and south chapels. EXTERIOR: North front: 5 Perpendicular windows with stained and coloured glass; stepped buttresses; moulded parapet; gargoyles. East front: 4-light stained glass window with cinquefoil head, under pointed arch. West front: C20 restored window; 4-light window to South aisle. South front: porch with wrought-iron gates and plank doors, under enriched pointed arch with moulded and decorated spandrels, and castellated parapet; doorway to North under moulded pointed arch with enriched spandrels, moulded jambs, and hood-moulding; various 2-and 3-light mullions; enriched buttress finials. Castellated tower with corner buttresses and louvred lancets; ribbed spire with finials to louvred lancets, and weathercock. INTERIOR: pulpit, c1621. C14 stalls with misericordes, and chest. C16 font (from which David Garrick was baptised in 1717); C17 reredos; C15 tiles and wall painting; Chained Library of some 300 books, the second largest in England (The largest being held at Hereford Cathedral (qv)). (Duncumb J: History of the County of Hereford: 1804-: 592-597).

Listing NGR: SO5089240043