Church Of All Saints

GRITTLETON LITTLETON DREW ST 88 SW (west side)

2/21 Church of All Saints

20.12.60

GV II*

Anglican Parish Church, C15 central tower, nave and chancel 1856 by T.H. Wyatt. Squared rubble stone with stone slate roofs and coped gables. Thin 3-stage tower with north stair projection up to bell stage, dripcourses and flat-headed cusped 2-light bell-openings. Embattled parapet. 1856 work is Perpendicular style with slight variations in detail each side. Three-window nave with diagonal west buttresses, 3-light pointed west window, gabled north porch between flat-headed 2-light windows with hoodmoulds, and south side buttresses between flat-headed single-light and two 2-lights. South side vestry with west door attached to tower. Chancel has 3- light pointed east window; 2-light flat-headed window each side and one north side lancet. Interior: plain with open timber roofs and stained glass 1856 east window by C. and A. Gibbs. C13 circular font on moulded shaft with spurs at foot. North wall recumbent C15 female effigy in wall recess. Two fragments of carved C9 cross-shaft built into north porch. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1897, 301; M. Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass, 1980, 77)

Listing NGR: ST8313980189