Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-span-scarlet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Tarrant Monkton
- OS grid reference
- ST 943 088
- Coordinates
- 50.87884, -2.08106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating back to around 1400, with significant portions from the 15th century. Further alterations and refenestration occurred in the 16th and 18th centuries, followed by a general restoration and the addition of a north aisle, south chapel, and north porch in 1873. The church is constructed of banded ashlar and flint with ashlar dressings, and features tiled roofs with stone gable copings.
The church is composed of a nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle, north porch, and a south chapel. The west tower was partially rebuilt in the 18th century. It is two stages separated by an ashlar plat-band, with diagonal and square-set buttresses. A two-light window from around 1400 is located in the west face, above which is a single loop. The eastern belfry features two 18th-century lights flanked by reset medieval head stops, and a reset two-light window from around 1400 in a pointed head. A plain parapet sits above a moulded string with gargoyles. The north window of the nave dates to the 19th century and has three lights under a square head. The south wall of the nave retains two medieval three-light square-headed windows. The chancel features 18th-century lancet windows of one and two lights, and a large 18th-century east window composed of three graduated lancets. The south wall of the chancel contains a restored medieval window with a chamfered, pointed head and continuous jambs. The north aisle and south chapel have 19th-century windows with one, two, and three lights and curvilinear tracery. A 19th-century open, gabled timber porch provides access to the north side.
Inside, the pointed chancel arch has two chamfered orders, the outer being continuous and the inner dying into the responds. The pointed tower arch is of a single chamfered order, continuous with its jambs. A two-bay arcade features segmental pointed arches of two chamfered orders, with the outer order continuous and the piers square. The chancel is covered by a segmental barrel roof, while the nave has a 19th-century braced scissor-truss roof with ashlar pieces and the aisle boasts a 19th-century collar-truss roof. A late 17th-century octagonal pulpit with fielded panelling and an enriched cornice is also present. The church also contains a 12th-century font with a tapering square bowl featuring four rounded-headed panels on each side, set upon a plain centre shaft with four corner shafts. Later 19th-century monuments are also within the church, as are other features predominantly dating to the 19th or 20th centuries.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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