Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1965
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Wakes Street, Wakes Colne
OS grid reference
TL 889 286
Coordinates
51.9239, 0.74671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located on Wakes Street in Wakes Colne. It dates back to the Norman period, featuring a nave with a west timber bell turret and a shingled broach spire, while the lower part of the turret is weatherboarded. The chancel is lower and narrower, having been extended to the east in the 19th century. The church's walls are constructed from coursed flint, brick, and stone quotas.

There are three high windows in the north wall of the nave, which have stone quoins and voussoirs. The south wall has two similar windows that are currently blocked. Notably, there are two reticulated windows from around 1330 located at the north-east and south-east corners. The north door, dating from around 1200, features attached circular columns of a single order.

The roofs include a peg-tiled north porch from the 15th to 16th centuries, which has been much restored and includes cusped verge boards. Inside, there is a portal belfry frame with arch braces that have been repaired in the perpendicular style. The nave roof has a west tiebeam supported by wall posts and moulded oak corbels. Additionally, there is a 14th-century rectangular three-light transomed window in the south nave wall, featuring two brick mullions and a single brick transom, as well as a similar window in the west wall with stone mullions and a transom.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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