All Saints Church is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
All Saints Church
- WRENN ID
- young-doorway-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
All Saints Church is a church of 1841, designed by Brown of Norwich. It is constructed of grey Gault brick with stone dressings, including panels of knapped flint, and has a grey slate roof. The church follows a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel, and two transepts, with a west and south porch.
The nave features six bays of tall lancet windows with drip moulds and head stops, with a three-stage buttress set between each window. A moulded string runs below the window cills and modillioned eaves were formerly parapetted. Similar detailing is seen along the east and west walls of the transepts. The west front incorporates a full-height decorative porch with a central doorway flanked by two windows, each featuring a moulded two-centred arch supported on attached columns with moulded bases and capitals. Gablets with finials top each arch, and the large west window is of three lights with a two-centred arch, drip moulds, and head stops, surmounted by a gable with a finial. Four-stage flanking buttresses are crowned with octagonal finials having conical caps. The north face of the porch has a single window that matches those on the nave, while the south face features a doorway with a moulded two-centred arch and a small window above. Parapet gables, incorporating clocks, have been added to the north and south sides. The aisles terminate in parapet gables with moulded trefoil windows above a bracketted string and tall windows matching the nave, with three-stage flanking buttresses and gabled caps. A tall, gabled bell cote is also present. The north and south gable ends of the transepts are punctuated by three-light windows with two-centred heads, drip moulds, and head stops, alongside three-stage flanking buttresses with gabled caps. A late 19th-century gabled porch with a two-centred arch and grey slate roof was added to the south transept. The chancel was originally one bay and extended in the late 19th century, now with three gables to the east end; it features a central three-light window flanked by single-light windows, with buttresses between. A moulded string is present at cill level, with grey brick below. An early 20th-century single-storey vestry of grey brick with a large panel of knapped flint was added to the east wall of the north transept, featuring a parapet wall, a moulded string, a north door and window with Tudor arches and drip moulds, and an east window with a two-centred head.
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