Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. A Georgian Church.
Church of All Saints
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building constructed between 1745 and 1750 for J.A. Pusey, with the top of the tower added around 1840. It features a limestone ashlar west porch, with dressed and coursed limestone walls that have strap pointing and ashlar quoins. The church has an oblong plan, including transeptal chapels on the north and south sides, as well as a west tower and porch.
Designed in a mid-Georgian style, the church has a Venetian window on the east side and a memorial inscription to William White, who died in 1678, located on the south wall of the chancel. The transeptal chapels each have Venetian windows on their end walls, a flat string course, and a cavetto moulded soffit beneath the parapet. Each west wall features two lunettes flanking a segmental arch above a six-panelled door, which includes two glazed panels. The nave has semi-circular keyed arches with impost blocks on each side wall, similar to the arch above the pedimented west porch. The porch also has a segmental arch over a three-panelled double-leaf west door. The parapet rises to the west tower, which dates from around 1840 and features similar semi-circular arches, a plain string at impost level, and a bracketed Italian-style cornice with Greek acroteria.
Inside, the church has moulded plaster cornices and a carved face of Christ on the south chancel wall. The chancel arch is semi-circular and keyed, with impost blocks, and features a mid-19th century rail. The side chapels are separated by Venetian screens. The south chapel includes a pedimented doorway with Roman Ionic pilasters, a wall tablet commemorating Philip Pusey, who died in 1867, and a large monument by Peter Scheemakers for Jane and J.A. Pusey, who died in 1742 and 1753, respectively. This monument features a broken pediment and Roman Ionic pilasters framing a reredos with a bust above a reclining female figure holding a book. The north chapel contains an oval tablet by William Bird for M. Dunch, who died in 1679, flanked by crude weeping putti and a heraldic crest at the top. The nave features an elaborate mid-18th century octagonal font, royal arms carved in stone over the door, and a reset incised memorial slab depicting Henry Dogget and his wife, who died in 1480.
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