Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- tall-spindle-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Midland Road, Wellingborough, NN8 1HE
- OS grid reference
- SP 895 678
- Coordinates
- 52.30112, -0.6879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church of All Saints is a church constructed around 1867-8, with an enlargement in 1890, designed by A. Buckeridge. The building is constructed of rusticated and banded limestone and ironstone, with a slate roof. It comprises an aisled nave, a chancel with an apse, a south chapel, and north and west porches. It is a single-story building with an undercroft.
The apse features a three-window range of two-light windows with plate tracery and quatrefoils above. The south elevation incorporates a vestry with two single lancet windows and two-light undercroft windows below, along with similar east windows. The south aisle has a five-window range of two-light windows with plate tracery and quatrefoils above, punctuated by two-stage buttresses and a lean-to roof with a chamfered cornice. To the north, the aisle comprises a four-window range, resembling the south aisle, with a gabled porch to the right. The west gable has a lean-to porch with four pairs of small lancet windows and a lean-to roof, above which are three tall lancet windows and an octagonal window in the gable. The nave clerestory features a five-window range of double lancets, separated by flat buttresses. A blank half bay is repeated at the west end of the nave and aisles. The south chancel clerestory has a two-window range of quatrefoils. The roof is pitched, with ashlar gable parapets, a bellcote at the east end, and a finial at the west end.
Inside, a double-chamfered chancel arch has flat responds. The five-bay nave arcade incorporates single chamfered arches on circular piers with large, foliated capitals decorative banding of limestone and ironstone. A half arch leads from the south aisle to the vestry. A pair of double doors with pointed heads lead to the west porch. The interior features a wooden barrel roof. South of the altar are a pair of double sedilia and a piscina. The apse panelling displays gilt foliated decoration. A large marble altar is present, alongside a Perpendicular style rood screen with a crucifix above and a painted pulpit, both dating from the early 20th century. Stained glass by Kempe is notable: the apse window (1887) depicts Biblical scenes, the south aisle windows (1893) depict Biblical scenes and the Saints, and the north aisle windows (1903) depict the Saints.
Local climate
Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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