Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1999. Ruined church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- upper-thatch-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1999
- Type
- Ruined church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Maldon Road, Stanway
- OS grid reference
- TL 952 220
- Coordinates
- 51.86311, 0.83487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a ruined church dating from the late 13th century, which has undergone significant rebuilding, likely after the fall of a tower in the early 15th century. During this time, a north aisle was added, along with a north porch built around 1605. The church is constructed from flint and stone rubble, with some limestone dressings and red brick, and currently has a missing roof. It features a west tower, a three-bay nave, and a north porch. The chancel and north aisle were demolished around 1605 by Sir John Swinterton when the church became a chapel for Great Stanway Hall.
The west tower consists of three stages, with late 13th-century flint and stone below the tower arch, showcasing a chequered and moulded plinth. Above this, there are early 15th-century narrow bricks arranged in single stretcher courses, interspersed with courses of pebble flints, topped with an embattled parapet and stepped buttresses. The south staircase door has a two-centred arch with a moulded arch. Inside, there is an early 15th-century domical brick vault. The nave's south wall features a door with a two-centred head and arched windows. The early 15th-century north aisle arcade includes quatrefoil piers with hollows between the foils, round moulded capitals, and two-centred arches. The chancel arch is blocked with an early 17th-century brick window, and there is early 17th-century brick infilling, including a north doorway with a four-centred arch and dripmoulding. The north porch, built around 1605 in English bond brick, has a stepped gable with a blank panel, a four-centred arch, and colonnettes. The church has been derelict since around 1700.
Local climate
Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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