Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. Church.
Church of All Saints
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Wells Road, Corston
- OS grid reference
- ST 694 652
- Coordinates
- 51.38576, -2.4398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church located on Wells Road in Corston. It dates back to the 12th century, with alterations made in the 13th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and a full restoration completed between 1864 and 1865 by B. Ferrey. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle with a porch, and chancel. It is constructed of coursed and snecked rubble with freestone dressings, topped with a plain tiled roof featuring coped raised verges and cross finials.
The low west tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses with off-sets, a plain embattled parapet with pinnacles, and a set-back octagonal ashlar spire. The bell chamber has single-light lancet openings, and the west window on the second stage, dated 1622, features two lights in ovolo moulded surrounds with 4-centred heads, under an arched hood mould with square stops. The first stage has a restored three-light window under a relieving arch, and there is a 17th-century studded plank door beneath a cambered head. A square stair tower is located at the north-east.
The north aisle includes two 19th-century geometric style two-light windows and buttresses with off-sets. The porch features an outer doorway in Early English style with one order of columns that have foliate capitals, while the inner doorway is round-headed with a roll moulding. The chancel has three cusped lancet windows on the north side in double hollow chamfered surrounds, along with a priests' door in a similar surround. The south side also has cusped lancet windows, but these are in single hollow chamfered surrounds. All windows have deep embrasures and rere-arches, with a 19th-century three-light stepped lancet window on the east.
Inside, the nave features one window similar to that of the chancel and two 19th-century three-light cusped windows. The south porch projects with a gabled design. The interior includes a three-bay arcade from 1865, with a font and pulpit dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Above the north door, there is a royal arms dated 1660. The chancel contains two Harington monuments: one for Benjamin, who died in 1711, and another for Mary, who died in 1732. Both are baroque marble tablets adorned with pilasters, a winged skull and arms for Benjamin, and a gadrooned base for the pilasters and arms for Mary.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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