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
twelfth-wall-saffron
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, High Street, Odell
OS grid reference
SP 966 580
Coordinates
52.21183, -0.58646
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of All Saints is a 15th-century church constructed from coursed limestone rubble, situated prominently opposite Odell Castle. The church features a chancel, a double-aisled nave, and a west tower. The chancel consists of two bays and includes sedilia, a piscina, and a priest's door, along with a 15th-century screen. The nave has four bays with a clerestory above, which contains four two-light windows on each side, and is topped with a low-pitched roof supported by carved corbels. The north aisle has three three-light side windows and one window at each end, while the south aisle windows are similar but taller, featuring a trefoiled ogee-headed piscina at the southeast end. The porch is notable for its tierceron star vault. The tower is monumentally proportioned, consisting of four stages with clasping buttresses, paired transomed two-light belfry openings, a tracery frieze, and pinnacles. Inside, there is an octagonal 15th-century font, a 17th-century gallery and screens under the tower arch, 17th-century pews, a 15th-century rood screen, fragments of 15th-century stained glass, and monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries dedicated to the Alston family.

Local climate

Parish Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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