Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
dark-chamber-onyx
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Wotton Underwood
OS grid reference
SP 688 159
Coordinates
51.83786, -1.00229
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church, largely dating from the 14th century, with remnants of a 12th-century west doorway. It was restored and the south aisle rebuilt in 1867 by G.E. Street for the Duke of Buckingham. A 19th-century west tower was also added. The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone with lead roofs, and features offset buttresses and moulded parapets to the nave and chancel.

The west tower has two stages, a battlemented parapet, an octagonal lead spire, wide lancet openings, and a west door. The nave contains restored 14th- and 15th-century two-light traceried windows, three to the north and one to the south. A north door has a moulded depressed arch, with a brick niche to the right. Restored carved head gargoyles are present. The south aisle is of dressed stone with a sill course and dripmould, and has three-light traceried windows. The chancel has cusped lancets to the north and south, and a 19th-century three-light east window with reticulated tracery. A small 19th-century north vestry is also present.

Inside, a door to the tower features 12th-century incised patterning to the lintel. The nave roof is dated 1870 and has carved angel corbels. The south arcade has three bays of arches on quatrefoil piers, all renewed in the 19th century, and two west bays create a screen to the Grenville chapel with elaborate 19th-century tracery. Two remaining bays of the south aisle are divided by an arch and have a dado of blind tracery panels with inscriptions. The restored 15th-century chancel arch is double hollow chamfered on semi-octagonal piers. The chancel also has a moulded sill course and a 19th-century arch to the aisle and vestry.

A circular font, possibly medieval but much reworked, sits on a banded stem. A medieval chest and a fine early 18th-century wrought iron screen to the chapel, featuring Corinthian capitals and a crest with foliage scrolls and the initials of Richard Grenville, are also present. The chapel has 19th-century armorial glass. Monuments include a 19th-century ogee recess at the west end of the chapel housing a tomb chest with a carved stone effigy of Agnes de Wightham, who died in 1386 but whose effigy is from the 16th century. There are also 16th-century brasses to Edward Greneveile, his wife, and child, as well as stone wall tablets to members of the Grenville family. A large tomb chest along the south wall contains a double row of oval brass inscription tablets to the same family, with further oval tablets on the floor.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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