Church Of All Saints Including Front Churchyard Wall, Gates And Gate Piers

Church of All Saints, Brixham

Parish church, largely rebuilt between 1884 and 1906, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier church dating from around 1819-24. The south aisle was constructed in 1885, the north aisle and west front in 1892 by architect G Somers-Clarke. The tower and Lady Chapel were added between 1900 and 1906 by JT Micklethwaite.

The building is constructed of squared Devonian limestone rubble, with dressings to the top stage of the tower and other elements apparently of oolitic limestone, most probably Bath stone, although the south-east nave window may be of Beer stone. The roof is tiled throughout.

The church is laid out with a nave oriented north-west to south-east, flanked by east and west aisles, a chancel with east and west chancel chapels, and an additional west aisle (probably the former Lady Chapel) with the tower at its south end. The architectural style is Perpendicular with traceried windows. The south end of the nave is flanked by tall, octagonal pinnacled buttresses, and small entrance porches on either side of these are reached from Church Street by a long flight of stone steps. The main entrance is through a pointed-arched doorway in the three-stage tower, which features pinnacles and three empty niches above the doorway, carved with the date 1906. The Lady Chapel has buttresses.

Internally, the nave has an arcade of five pointed arches on each side, with four similar arches opening into the Lady Chapel. The chancel has a three-sided north end, and the chancel arch features coloured marble shafts. Cranked arches connect the east aisle to the chancel chapel and link the chancel to both side chapels, these supported by elaborately carved corbels. The corbels to the west chapel, which houses the organ, are carved in the form of angels with musical instruments. The nave has a boarded wagon roof with bosses; the aisles have pitched beamed roofs, that to the Lady Chapel also featuring bosses. The chancel and east chancel chapel have open roofs with arch-braced trusses. At the south end of the nave are two stone plaques, one recording the start of the church's rebuilding in 1884 and the other commemorating a new nave roof completed in 1898.

The fittings include a hexagonal wooden pulpit in Gothic style carved with seaweed, taken from the original church. A black marble font of probable early 19th-century date stands in the east aisle, while a pink marble font inscribed with a record of a baptism in 1874 is positioned at the south end of the nave. The chancel features a reredos completed in 1938 by Stanley N Babb.

Monuments include one to Henry Francis Lyte, who died in 1847 and was the first vicar of the parish and author of the hymn 'Abide with Me', located in the east chancel chapel. A statue of St Peter, brought from the former Church of St Peter the Fisherman in Brixham, is also displayed. Stained-glass windows are present in the chancel, east chancel chapel, east aisle, and Lady Chapel.

The front curtilage wall to the west of the church is of squared Devonian limestone rubble with a moulded coping. At the west end are square gate piers with ball finials and iron gates with scrollwork.