Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Hart local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Church Of All Saints

WRENN ID
still-porch-oak
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Hart
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1987
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Church of All Saints was built in 1862 by William Burges. It comprises a six-bay nave and aisles, with two western bays added in 1934, and a one-bay chancel with an apse. A vestry is located to the north-east, extended in modern times with a Lady Chapel dating to 1958.

The interior features a pointed barrel vault roof in timber with brick arches separating the bays. Pilasters are attached to the square pillars, which separate the pointed arches of the arcade. Half-arches in brickwork are present in the aisles, resting on impost blocks. The red brick interior is marked by single bands and a plinth, and originally featured painting of yellow and black bands and yellow motifs; the polychromatic treatment has disappeared in the chancel, which is now painted white.

Externally, the absence of a clerestory emphasises the steeply-pitched red tile roofing. A tall, two-bell gabled turret is located at the east end of the nave. The walls are constructed of red brickwork, featuring a decorative eaves band of diagonal bricks above cusped arches resting on small brackets. There are horizontal, plain mouldings at impost level, carried over the openings, and at cill level, as well as a plinth. Buttresses, consisting of two steps, divide the bays, each bay containing a pair of lancet windows. The west gable has a circular window with plate tracery, re-set from the original west wall. The aisles terminate in coupled lancets beneath a cusped roundel, and the nave ends in a group of three lancets. North and south doors contain tympanum sculpture. Inside, a canopied tomb of medieval style houses the effigies of the founder, C H Lefroy, and his wife. All windows have heavy leaded lights, some with circular and others with lozenge-shaped glass.

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