Church Of All Saints

SO 61 NE 6/107

LONGHOPE CHURCH ROAD (east side)

Church of All Saints

GV II*

Parish church: C12, C14, C15, C19 restoration. Random rubble, irregular larger stone quoins to transepts and chancel, better squared to upper part of tower, ashlar to parapet; tiled roof. Nave, transepts, chancel, west tower, south porch, vestry. Tower, four stages with plain string courses: lowest central pilaster buttress, to right doorway, radiating voussoirs above semi-circular headed lintel with steep segmental soffit. Tapered lancet with square-head second stage; trefoil head to lancet third stage, 2- light window with stone louvres top. Moulded string with corner gargoyles set diagonally, above crenellated parapet, with crocketed corner finials. Nave, moulded stone and timber eaves on timber corbels: buttress on left, blocked round-headed window, to right carved head over ridge of porch roof, beyond 2-light reticulated tracery window. Porch gabled, plain, chamfered doorway, flat- headed single light above, with above an angled sundial. South transept, cross-gabled apex to gable with remains of cross: 2- light Y tracery window with hoodmould. Chancel, blocked priest's door on left, single lancet to right; below Arrowsmith monument, early C18, lettering recut, above half pyramid. 3-light C19 window with reticulated tracery; below top of arch appears at ground level: blocked lancet to right. Interior: wide, plain arches to transepts, flat plaster ceiling to nave. Brass standards for earlier lighting remain. Royal Arms (William III) over south door: Decalogue, Pater Noster and Creed on two trompe l'oeil diptychs on painted boards, early C19. Recumbent effigy of priest in North Transept. Restored 1869 by A. W. Maberly; battlements later replaced spire. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; old photograph in vestry).

Listing NGR: SO6845719798