Church Of All Saints

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO47SE BATCHCOTT 482-1/8/159 Church of All Saints 28/10/69

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Parish church. 1892. By Richard Norman Shaw. Coursed rusticated Grinshill sandstone with ashlar dressings. Plain tiles with ashlar coped gables. PLAN: chancel, 3-bay nave with south aisle, south-west tower and north porch. 2-bay chancel with north vestry and south choir vestry. 3-stage tower incorporating south porch. EXTERIOR: chancel with 2 straight-headed Decorated-style windows with reticulated tracery to each of the north and south walls. Early Perpendicular-style 5-light east window. Angle buttresses. Vestries form a substructure to the west end of chancel with the wall of the organ loft breaking the chancel eaves line and rising to a raised battlemented parapet. Nave north wall with three 3-light cusped windows with reticulated tracery in Decorated style. Perpendicular-style west window of 5 cusped lancets. South aisle has 3 windows similar to the chancel. West window of the aisle in Decorated style with 3 cusped lancets and reticulated tracery, the east window with 2 cusped lancets with quatrefoil. Gabled north porch. Tower with diagonal buttresses to first stage. Battlemented parapet with pyramid roof. Upper stage set back at high level with corner pinnacles rising from the set-off. Wide pointed archway over 2 flights of entrance steps to south door. Stair turret to west. Simple 4-light stone mullioned window to south. Each face of the bell stage with double louvred windows of 2 cusped lancets with quatrefoil. INTERIOR: chancel roof of 5 arched braced trusses with plain double purlins and ridge. Sedilia and piscina. Vestry doorways have alternating boss carvings covering 3 intrados bands under a hoodmould with figurative label stops. Pointed chancel arch on foliated capitals. Nave roof of 8 trusses similar to chancel roof. South arcade of 3-bay pointed arches on unadorned columns. Oak pews, pulpit and doors by Norman Shaw. Reredos in medieval Burgundian style by Charles Buckeridge. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1958-: 69).

Listing NGR: SO4943370658