Parish Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A Medieval Church.
Parish Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- buried-gallery-moon
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Parish Church of All Saints, Church End, Renhold
- OS grid reference
- TL 088 528
- Coordinates
- 52.16318, -0.40949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of All Saints is a historic church dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It features a tower made of coursed limestone rubble, with brown cobbles and ashlar dressings, and is topped with slate roofs. The church comprises a chancel, a north vestry, a nave, a south porch, a north aisle, and a west tower.
The chancel includes a 15th-century north doorway leading to the 19th-century vestry and a 19th-century east window. The south wall has 15th-century windows and a priest's door, while the chancel arch was restored in the 19th century. The nave contains a three-bay north arcade from the 14th century, which has been restored, and three 15th-century clerestory windows on the north side. The south wall features remnants of a rood staircase and a three-light window above it. The south porch is plain, with blocked windows on each side and a 19th-century external doorway.
The north aisle, dating from the 14th century, has a wide left window with an image recess in the northeast corner. The north wall displays two pointed arched windows from the 14th century with different tracery, a blocked north doorway, and a restored window similar to those in the clerestory. There is also a three-light west window. The 15th-century west tower has five stages, with angle buttresses on the west side, a leaded spirelet, and shields on the cornice. It features two-light windows on all sides of the top stage, a three-light window on the lower west side, a small niche above, and a single light on the south side. The tower has an embattled parapet, while the other parapets are plain.
Inside, there is a cylindrical 12th-century font with an unfinished band of acanthus leaves and a fragment of 14th-century glass in the north aisle window. The chancel contains a tomb from 1518 for Edmund and Agnes Wayte, featuring brasses inlaid in a slab, along with shields and inscriptions. There are also various 17th and 18th-century wall monuments to the Beecher family, as well as 19th-century monuments to the Polhill family. The church mainly has 19th-century roofs and pews.
Local climate
Parish Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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