Church Of All Saints is a Grade I 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
- proud-jade-blackthorn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the 12th century, with a south aisle added around 1280, a chancel from about 1340, and a tower and south porch constructed around 1450. It was restored in 1862 by T. H. Wyatt. The building is made of rubble with stone slate roofs and features coped verges with finials. Architecturally, it showcases predominantly Decorated and Perpendicular styles, while retaining much of its Norman work.
The chancel has two bays with angle buttresses, a three-light east window, and two-light windows on the north and south sides, one of which is unusually small. There is a priest's door with an ogee head and a trefoiled opening. The central tower is three stages high and embattled, featuring two-light Decorated windows on the second stage and Perpendicular windows in the belfry. The nave displays significant Norman elements, especially at the north door, which has two attached shafts on each side with carved capitals and a tympanum depicting the Tree of Life. The arch features a three-dimensional zig-zag design and an outer order of beak heads, with a figure of the Father under a triangular hood mould. There is also a simpler 12th-century door to the south, two 12th-century windows, and a corbel table on the north side, while the west window has been much restored.
Inside, the salient features include 12th-century piers supporting the tower, with three and two shafts respectively in the chancel, and ornamental capitals. The nave piers are three-shafted, with the middle shafts twisted and decorated abaci. Both arches to the chancel and west nave are pointed and date to around 1250. The south aisle has a decorated arch and piers with foliated capitals, as well as a piscina in the south wall. The nave contains an 11th-century font with extensive decoration and an inscription in Roman style that reads: "Hoc Fontis Sacro Peveunt Delicta Lavacro." There is a trefoil-headed piscina in the chancel and a small vestry featuring a medieval coffin lid on the wall, which depicts a cross and a hand. A 17th-century communion table is also present, along with much mid-19th-century stained glass, particularly in the south window of the central tower, created in 1862 by J. L. Vanderpoorten of Brussels.
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