Church of All Saints

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SJ 90 SE 3/52

WALSALL MB Bloxwich HIGH STREET Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. 1874-7 by Davies & Middleton, encasing part of church of 1794. Brick with slate roof. Comprises a west tower, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, south porch, lower chancel and north vestry. The tower has triple lancet bell openings, a pyramid roof set back behind a parapet raised at the corners,and clock faces, with paired lancets below on the west side. The west doorway has a pointed arch. To north and south of the tower are lean-to projections, each with paired lancets above a pointed doorway. The aisles are of five bays and have two tiers of paired sandstone lancets within brick openings. The clerestory windows are triple lancets. The south porch has a pointed doorway. The chancel is of one bay to the south and has a three-light east window with sandstone plate tracery.

Interior: five-bay nave arcades have pointed arches of exposed brick, and red sandstone round piers with foliated capitals. North and south galleries have timber fronts with blind arcading. The roof has arch-braced collar trusses. The chancel arch is pointed and of exposed brick. The chancel has a piscina and triple sedilia. The pulpit and font are painted, probably of artificial stone, in a Gothic style. The windows contain some late C19 glass.

Listing NGR: SJ9975601910