Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1955. A Victorian Church.
Church of All Saints
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- bitter-remnant-yew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Swan Lane, Leigh
- OS grid reference
- SU 062 921
- Coordinates
- 51.62822, -1.91118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church, originally built in the 14th century and significantly altered in 1896 by C.E. Ponting. It features squared limestone rubble and a stone slate roof. The nave was rebuilt from the old church, and a new chancel was added at a cost of £1,300. The entrance porch dates from the 14th century and includes wave moulding and a hood, with a sundial above. The inner door has a simple chamfer. The nave contains two and three-light ogee-headed windows from the 14th century, while the chancel windows are in the Perpendicular style, featuring a three-light east window and a two-light north window, both with flattened cusping. The church has angle buttresses and an organ recess beneath an extension of the chancel roof, as well as foliated crosses on the gables.
The tower, located over the west bay, is timber-framed and roughcast externally, with two-light pointed bell openings and a hipped gablet roof. Inside, the porch features an ogee niche with remnants of red paint and an arch-braced collar beam roof on a moulded wall plate, with false purlins and an incised date of 1659. The nave consists of five bays with an open timber roof, likely of medieval origin but dated 1638 on a crenellated wall plate. This roof bears inscriptions and initials IT, IL, and CW 1783 on the purlin. The 17th-century carved principal rafters and decorated purlins are complemented by wavy windbraces in the lowest bay. The east bay of the roof is panelled with carved bosses at the intersections of moulded ribs, while the west bay contains a heavy braced frame for the tower. The chancel features a panelled barrel vault and original 19th-century fittings.
Notable fittings include a limestone font from the 13th century with a four-lobed basin on a slightly lobed stem, a simple oak panelled pulpit from the 18th century with a tester, and a 19th-century screen across the west bay of the nave that forms a vestry.
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 lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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