Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-foundation-grove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Fifehead Neville
- OS grid reference
- ST 767 110
- Coordinates
- 50.89801, -2.33128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating to the 14th century, with a north aisle and arcade around 1500, significant remodelling in 1736, and restoration in 1873. It is constructed of coursed rubble and squared dressed rubble with render and ashlar dressings, topped with a tiled, gable-ended roof featuring stone copings and an ashlar bellcot to the west gable. The plan includes a nave with a north aisle, a chancel, and a south porch.
Windows of 1736 are found throughout the nave and north aisle; they have semi-circular heads, greensand ashlar surrounds with keystones and rectangular impost blocks, and leaded-lights. Two of the easternmost windows feature outward opening wrought iron casements. The south porch has an outer doorway with a square greensand head and jambs, featuring a keystone bearing a date. The inner doorway has a 4-centred head and continuous stop-chamfered jambs; above this is a horizontal stone, possibly the shaft of a cross with traces of decoration. An early 16th-century studded oak door is fitted with original wrought iron strap hinges. The south-east and north-east chancel windows are 2-light designs with straight chamfered jambs and Y-tracery under 2-centred heads, with labels. The north-west chancel window has a 2-centred head and features two trefoiled lights with panelled tracery and straight chamfered jambs; the reset label has large, coarsely carved king and bishop stops. The east window is under a 2-centred head with three cinquefoiled lights, panel tracery, and a label with carved head-stops. Above it is a reset carving of a bishop and a date stone. The south chancel door has a 2-centred head and continuously chamfered jambs.
Internally, a three-bay nave arcade displays 2-centred arches with wave and hollow chamfered mouldings. The piers feature four half-columns separated by hollow chamfers, with capitals including unfinished fleurons to the west pier. A 2-centred horseshoe chancel arch has continuous chamfers. Traces of a rood vice are visible to the north. The church houses 19th-century arch-braced collar beam roofs with king posts in the nave and chancel, and another in the aisle. Reset fielded panelling is found in the nave and aisle. Other furnishings include 17th-century turned communion rails, an 18th-century pulpit with fielded panels, and a 14th-century octagonal font on a greensand base. Numerous monuments from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries are present, including those dedicated to Roger Goodfellow, the Ryves family, and William Salkeld. Fragments of early glass remain.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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