Church Of All Saints

Church of All Saints

Parish church built in 1870–72 by J. Norton, extended in 1907 by T. Moore. The building is located on The Green at Croxley Green.

The original structure comprises a four-bay nave, two-bay chancel, and a north tower with organ bay. The 1907 extension adds a parallel four-bay nave and three-bay chancel to the south, with a south porch and vestry. The church is constructed of smooth-faced snecked stone with yellow brick used in the extension, ashlar dressings throughout, and machine-tiled roofs. The style is Gothic Revival for the original building, with a Free Gothic character to the extension.

The original west front features a pointed arched four-light window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould. A continuous string course runs below sill level, with angle buttresses flanking the elevation. A coped gable parapet with ridge cross crowns the gable. The nave to the north has three pointed arched two-light windows with cinquefoil lights, chamfered surrounds, and hoodmoulds linked to a roll-moulded string course. A gauged stone segmental arched entrance with chamfered surround sits between two bays to the west. The building has a plinth and nailhead eaves cornice, with a coped gable parapet at the east end of the nave.

The tower projects from the east bay of the nave with two lower stages square on plan, a plinth, and two lancets with foiled heads beneath a round arch in the string course to the north. A pointed arched entrance faces west, with upper slit openings and clock faces above. A bracketed cornice supports the round belfry, which has four paired lancets with foiled heads, quatrefoil and trefoil friezes, and a heavily moulded cornice. The spire is shingled and conical.

The vestry is brick on a stone base with a hipped roof and stack. The three-light pointed arched east window features elaborate geometrical tracery beneath a coped gable parapet. Angle buttresses to the north have a string course rising over a single lancet and an upper trefoil on the return.

The 1907 extension displays alternating bands of stone and brick of varying widths, narrower towards the top. The west end sits slightly behind the earlier nave. A west window has three pointed heads with lights grouped 2:3:2, geometrical tracery, and hoodmould; an upper pair of lancets features a cinquefoil and hoodmould. A tile-coped gable parapet and stone quoins to the south complete this elevation. The porch in the west bay has a heavy plinth, double-chamfered pointed entrance arch with hood mould and mask stops, and a steeply pitched coped gable parapet. Three pointed arched two-light nave windows have Y tracery and a string course at sill level. A continuous roof spans the chancel with two similar windows to the east and a pair of trefoiled and quatrefoiled lancets nearer the nave. A lean-to vestry to the south has three bays with small buttresses and square-headed windows, with an entrance in the west return and a three-light window in the east return. The chancel projects beyond the earlier build with a taller ridge. Two three-light east end windows have simple foiled tracery and hoodmoulds, with stone quoins and a tile-coped gable parapet.

Interior: The original chancel arch is pointed with florid respond capitals. An arcade separates the two builds, with two massive round arches to a central pier with moulded cap serving the nave, and one round arch between chancels with stone-quoined respond piers with moulded caps. Stone-quoined buttresses occupy the place of the chancel arch in the later build. A continuous wall passage runs to the east, south, and west of the later build at sill level of the windows in deep embrasures, with a string course below and blind lancets alternating with nave windows. A moulded colonnette stands between two east windows, and a round arch spans the sedilia in the chancel. Ceiled roofs cover the original build, while the later build is a single barrel-vaulted space. The church contains a nineteenth-century font with a square bowl on an octagonal stem with corner shafts, and stained glass depicting Christ in Majesty at the original east end.