Church of All Saints. Railings at west end, and churchyard steps at south east corner of Church of All Saints. is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C19 Church. 2 related planning applications.

Church of All Saints. Railings at west end, and churchyard steps at south east corner of Church of All Saints.

WRENN ID
nether-basalt-soot
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
Church
Address
Church of All Saints. Railings at west end, and churchyard steps at south east corner of Church of All Saints., High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1EZ
OS grid reference
SY 693 907
Coordinates
50.7154, -2.43558
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints, built between 1843 and 1845, was designed by architect Benjamin Ferrey with assistance from A D H Acland-Troyte, who also contributed to its construction. The church is made of hammer-dressed limestone with ashlar Ham stone dressings and features pitched stone slate roofs with coped gables on kneelers. It consists of a four-bay nave, two aisles, a vestry, a chancel, and a northwest tower. Architectural details include a moulded plinth, a string course below the windows, and carved ornamentation in the eaves cornice, along with buttresses and windows showcasing reticulated tracery. The tower features deeply moulded and traceried bell openings, topped by an octagonal broach spire with three storeys of traceried lucarnes, each adorned with a gablet. The base of the tower has a deeply moulded and elaborately carved door with a crocketed gable and a circle inscribed with a trilobe in the tympanum, a carving executed by Acland-Troyte himself.

Inside, the church boasts a hammer-beam roof with elegant wind braces and contains a notable monument to Matthew Chubb from 1617 located in the porch. At the west end, there are ornamental iron railings and gates, along with a lamp bracket at the southeast corner that illuminates the ashlar steps leading into the churchyard. The Church of All Saints, along with Nos 21 to 26, forms a group with No 1 Cornhill.

Local climate

Church of All Saints. Railings at west end, and churchyard steps at south east corner of Church of All Saints. receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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