Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to 1874-5, with alterations made in 1887. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott for the Gloucester and Bristol Church Building Association, it is constructed of ashlar with tiled roofs and coped gables. The church is built in the Middle Pointed style. It comprises an aisled nave with a clerestory of five bays, and a chancel. A south porch projects from the west bay of the south aisle. The original north vestry was altered to house an organ, and another vestry was added in 1887. The west gable features a large six-light window with foiled geometrical tracery, flanked by buttresses, and smaller three-light windows with similar tracery in the aisle end walls. The south porch has a cusped arched doorway within a moulded frame. The south aisle has three-light windows with reticulated tracery and offset buttresses, and the clerestory has square windows with various tracery patterns. The chancel is slightly lower and features a large seven-light east window with foiled geometrical tracery and a two-light window with reticulated tracery on the south side. The south chapel’s east gable has a three-light window with foiled intersecting tracery, while the south wall has a pair of two-light windows with segmental arches. Inside, the nave arcades have octagonal piers with moulded bases and caps and shallow pointed arches to the clerestory windows. The inner order of the moulded chancel arch is supported on corbels, and a decorated rood beam with figures of Christ and the two Marys sits above the west side of the chancel arch, also supported on corbels. The sanctuary includes a finely carved sedilia, and a painted screen with serpentine curves, designed by J. Coates-Carter and sculpted by A.P. Frith around 1920, separates the chancel and south chapel. Good later 19th-century furnishings are throughout, including a font, a painted organ case, and pews. Stained glass, dating to around 1875, is by Clayton and Bell and is found in the east window, a chancel window, and three windows in the south aisle. Considered by Verey to be the "finest C19 church in Gloucester," the church was constructed with funds from subscribers and a benefaction from the family of Rev. Thomas Hedley.