Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Church Lane, Norton
- OS grid reference
- ST 885 842
- Coordinates
- 51.55707, -2.16683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church with origins likely dating back to the 13th century. It was rebuilt in the 15th century and restored in 1854, probably by James Thomson for Joseph Neeld of Grittleton House, as indicated by the date on the bellcote weathervane. The church is constructed of coursed rubble with some areas of render, especially on the south and east walls of the chancel, while the buttresses, window surrounds, copings, and bellcote are made of ashlar. The roofs are covered with stone slates.
The church comprises a nave, chancel, north porch, and a west bellcote. On the south side of the nave, there are two Perpendicular windows with cusped lights under flat heads and hoodmoulds, along with a blocked 13th-century doorway featuring a pointed head and hoodmould. The north side has a similar 15th-century window and an 1854 window with two round-headed lights set in the original 15th-century opening. The chancel's north side has a similar 19th-century window, while the south side features a single light window. The east window has three lights with 19th-century plate tracery beneath a pointed head. Diagonal buttresses with set-offs support both the nave and chancel.
The gabled north porch has a round-headed entrance and a doorway with a 4-centred arch leading to a plank door. The bellcote, originally a turret on Grittleton House, was dismantled and relocated to the church in 1854. It is designed in a Romanesque style, featuring two arched openings on each side and topped with a pyramidal roof and weathervane.
Inside, the church has open rafter roofs in both the nave and chancel, with a 19th-century pointed arch leading to the chancel. Notable fittings include an early 13th-century font with a cylindrical pillar and trumpet capital frieze below a circular bowl, a Paternoster board on the north wall, Creed and Exodus boards on the south wall, a Jacobean pulpit, and a neo-classical marble wall monument from 1830 dedicated to William Walker on the west wall.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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