Church Of All Saints

SZ 19 NE SOPLEY THORNEY HILL

11/1 Church of All Saints

24.9.85

GV 1

Church. 1906 by Detmar Blow for Lord Manners of Avon Tyrell. Caen stone and rendered brick, aluminium roof. Remarkable Edwardian Baroque church, on north south axis, 3 bay with projecting centre bays on both sides, apse and west end with separate roofs, and west cupola, symmetrical about axis. East side has moulded plinth, in end bays rectangular leaded 24-pane window in stone architrave with hood and corbels. Over moulded timber modillioned cornice. In centre stone door, of architrave with panelled pilasters supporting console brackets surmounted by pediment. Above large round window in architrave with head of putto and wings. Over large semi-circular gable with cornice carried round, supported on each side of bay by pairs of modillioned cornice. Roof hipped with flat-top, and cupola vent at east. East end has blind windows in architraves either side of apse, which has similar at end and small oval frames on sides. Cornice carried round and half-conical roof running into main roof. At west, centre projection similar to centre side bay with small roof surmounted by octagonal timber cupola with ogee roof and weathervane. Inside apse has wall paintings of 1922 by P A Traquair of the Te Deum using local people as characters. Cornice and half- vault. Nave has 2 arcades of 4 Tuscan giant columns, with east 2 bays narrower, supporting groin-vault with panels between columns. West bay has timber screens with doors across aisles and gallery over nave with curtains below. 3 inscribed tablets relating to the First World War by E Gill and large monument 1917 to John Manners by Sir B Mackennal.

Listing NGR: SZ1673798427