Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1958. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- fallow-corridor-bittern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Somerford Keynes
- OS grid reference
- SU 016 955
- Coordinates
- 51.6585, -1.97748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church located in Somerford Keynes. It has a Saxon foundation dating back to around 685, but was largely rebuilt in the early 13th century. The tower was constructed between 1710 and 1713 and the church underwent restoration in 1875 by Waller, which included the addition of a north aisle. The building is made of coursed and tooled stone, featuring some snecking and flush quoins, and has a sprocketed stone slate roof with coped verges and saddlestones topped with cross finials.
The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, a chancel, and a north aisle. The tower has three stages with offsets, an embattled parapet, corner pinnacles, and stepped buttresses up to the second stage. It features twin round-arched louvred belfry lights on the top stage on all sides, a similar window on the second stage to the west, a large three-light Perpendicular window below, and a small segmental-headed doorway. There is a narrow Saxon doorway in the aisleless section of the north wall of the nave, which has a stilted arch supported by stepped corbels. The nave and chancel have two-light windows, some of which have been restored, with a priest's door located between the two chancel windows on the south side, and a 19th-century three-light lancet window to the east.
Inside, the nave features a roof of five bays with braced collar beams and struts to the principal rafters, along with two tiers of arched wind bracing. The arcade on the north side is in the Early English style, consisting of two bays for the nave and one for the chancel. The north aisle contains a large black and white marble monument with a reclining effigy dedicated to Robert Straung (Strange), who died in 1654. The chancel includes sedilia, a 13th-century piscina, and a 15th-century screen.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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