Church Of All Saints

TL 0467 DEAN AND SHELTON HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE), UPPER DEAN

7/74 Church of All Saints

13.7.64

GV I

Parish Church. C14, remodelled C15. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings. West tower, nave, North and South aisles, South porch, North and South chapels, chancel. C14 3-stage West tower has octagonal spire with lucarnes, plain parapet with frieze of grotesque heads beneath and gargoyle to centre of each side. Nave has 3-bay North and South arcades on C14 bases but raised later, probably when clerestory added in C15. North aisle, South aisle and South porch remodelled C15, North and South chapels added at same time. Embattled parapels to nave, aisles porch and chapels. Chapel East windows more elaborate than those to side walls. C13 chancel arch. C14 chancel has C15 windows. Exterior has projecting carved heads, 2 flanking East windows, one to South wall below plain parapet. Moulded 4-centred arches open onto North and South chapels. C15 nave and aisle roofs with angels carrying instruments of Passion and musical instruments. C14 octagonal font to South aisle. C14 canopied tomb recess to North aisle. C17 wall monuments to North and South chapels. Perpendicular wood pulpit. Elaborate medieval wood rood and chapel screens and Jacobean gate to rood screen. Pews also substantially medieval.

Listing NGR: TL0467967640