Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
still-eave-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1968
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Tellisford
OS grid reference
ST 800 556
Coordinates
51.2998, -2.28772
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a church that dates from the 12th century, with additions from the 13th and 14th centuries, and was restored in 1854. It is built from rubble Doulting stone and features a stone slate roof with coped gables, finials, and stone crosses. The structure includes a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel. The tower, constructed in 1490, has three stages and is unbuttressed. The entrance is located on the south side, featuring a vertically boarded door with a "Y" framework set under a four-centred arch with a dripmould. Above the entrance is a heraldic shield displaying the sickle device of the Hungerfords, Lords of the Manor. The tower has quatrefoil windows on the south and west sides at the ringing floor, and paired square-headed bell chamber windows on all four sides, which are adorned with perforated stone screens in a quatrefoil pattern. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet.

The stone porch has a late Norman arch leading to the door, which is decorated with chevron enrichment and supported by Early English columns with moulded capitals and head stops. The nave features three-light, four-centre square-headed stone mullion windows with dripmoulds, while the chancel has two-light Early English plate tracery trefoiled windows.

Inside, the nave and chancel have barrel vaults that date to around 1700. The nave's plaster ceiling has been removed, and the chancel includes carved and painted bosses in a leaf design that were added in 1854. The east window contains stained glass from 1857. The pulpit is dated 1608, and there is a rood screen from 1931 that incorporates a small part of a medieval screen. In the chancel, there is a part of a lantern from a 15th-century cross. Memorials within the church include those for Batchelor(s) from 1777, Edward Crabb from 1810, Ann Crabb from 1816 in the nave, and Henrey Farewell (Rector) from 1705 and William Batchelor (Rector) from 1797 in the chancel. Additionally, there is an external tablet on the south wall facing Crabb Hall and Crabb Mill, dedicated to Joseph and Benjamin Crabb.

Local climate

Church of All Saints receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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