Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- hushed-rubblework-autumn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Church Road, Ferndown Town, BH21 7LX
- OS grid reference
- SZ 055 988
- Coordinates
- 50.78878, -1.92308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church with Norman origins, featuring a 14th-century chancel and tower, a vestry added in 1823, and restoration work completed in 1896 that included a north aisle, north porch, and organ chamber. The building is constructed from ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a tiled roof. It consists of a nave with three bays, a north aisle, a chancel with an organ chamber and vestry, and a west tower. The chancel has three bays with coupled traceried windows, one on each side obscured by later additions, and a three-light east window with reticulate tracery. The aisle windows are similar in style, while the nave windows are in the Perpendicular style. The tower is two stages high, featuring a plinth, string course, thin diagonal stepped buttresses, and an embattled parapet, with the access stairway located at the northeast corner. The south side of the east end of the nave has a projecting rood stair. Inside, there are several historical features, including a 12th or 13th-century font, 18th-century communion rails, and 16th-century oak benches in the choir. The church also contains various wall monuments from the 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as one from 1630 featuring a bust within a classical framework of the Corinthian Order. The west wall of the nave displays a hatchment and a Royal Coat of Arms of George II from 1754, and within the tower are two bequest boards dated 1857.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 850 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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