Church Of All Saints

SANDWELL MB ALL SAINTS WAY SP 09 SW West Bromwich 5/1 Church of All Saints 25.2.49 II

Church. 1872 by Somers Clarke with C14 and C15 tower remaining from earlier church. Rock-faced sandstone with tile roofs. Comprises a nave, a tower at the west end of the south aisle, south porch, south vestry and chapel, south aisle under a pitched roof, chancel, north porch and north organ chamber. The tower has diagonal buttresses, and a west window of three lights under a pointed head with reticulated tracery. On the south side there is a sandstone sundial tablet. The bell openings are of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head. The embattled parapet has corner pinnacles. The west nave window is of five lights with Geometrical tracery. The nave is of five bays to the north, separated by buttresses, and has paired 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery. The north porch has a parapet, and two windows to the north. The east window of the chancel is of five lights with Geometrical tracery. On the south side there is a single-storey vestry against the three-bay chancel. The south chapel is of two bays and has 3-light windows with flat heads and intersecting tracery. To the right of the chapel are two bays of the south aisle which have 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery. Under the right-hand window is a mid-C20 doorway with canopy. In the east wall of the chapel is a worn plaque dated "1691". On the west side it is dated "1871". Between it and the south porch is one bay. The gabled porch has a pointed arch moulded in two orders. Interior: set into the wall at the base of the tower is a baluster shaft, possibly late C11. The six-bay arcade has pointed arches chamfered in two orders springing from piers with moulded capitals. The two western bays of the nave were partitioned from the remainder in the mid-C20 to form a coffee bar and gallery. The three western bays of the south aisle have an inserted first floor. The roof is boarded and has scissor-braced trusses. The pointed chancel arch is moulded and has corbelled shafts as responds. The font, said to be C15, is octagonal with shields carved within quatrefoils. The chancel is lined with sandstone and has a boarded barrel roof and mosaic floor. The east window has three inner arches carried on shafts. Between the chancel and south chapel is a two-bay arcade. The chapel roof has one scissor-braced king-post truss. Windows contain some C19 glass by Powell. (VCH, pp 53-55; BoE, p 302).

Listing NGR: SP0112592955