Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1950. A C15 Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- distant-timber-scarlet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1950
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a 15th-century building, with later alterations, situated in a churchyard containing good 19th-century chest tombs. The church is constructed of pebbledashed dolerite rubble with sandstone dressings from Grinshill or Ruabon, and it has a slate roof with a decorative red tile ridge. The nave and chancel are combined, with a timber porch to the southeast, inscribed with "TG:W:1686," featuring heavy curved brackets supporting a gable and tie beam with a dropped centre feature. A weatherboarded bellcote sits over the west end of the nave, topped with a pyramidal roof and containing a bell of 1662 by Thomas Clibury II, inscribed with the names of the churchwardens. A lean-to vestry and heating chamber were added to the north side in 1876.
The nave has five roof bays, extended by a further one and a half bays at the west end supporting the bellcote. A rood tie-beam divides the nave from the chancel, which has three roof bays. The church features a good 15th-century roof with arched braced collar trusses springing from moulded wall plates, carrying three tiers of purlins, each with cusped windbraces. A 15th-century doorway, of two orders in sandstone, is located in the first roof bay, its jambs showing marks from knife sharpening. A two-light window is present at the west end. Two short two-light windows flank the nave, replicating the cusped tracery of earlier windows in the chancel, which itself has an east window of three lights. The chancel is raised one step and paved with encaustic tiles, with a central, pilastered oak reredos in a 17th-century style, created by Rev. T.W. Jones in 1876. The reredos is vigorously carved and has a brass stepped cross applied to its centre.
The church contains fittings from the 19th century, including a carved softwood pulpit and pine pews installed in 1876. A font, dating to approximately 1220 and said to be from the chapter house of Strata Marcella Abbey, is characterised by deeply carved stiff leaf capitals. A moulded timber sanctuary rail is also present, alongside an organ by Conocher & Co. of Springwood, Huddersfield, located on the south side.
The west window contains good but mixed 15th and 16th-century glass, including a depiction of Christ with a Crown of Thorns, saints' heads, canopy work, flowered quarries, and a 17th-century shield of the Sutton family, all within a modern border. The east window, a gift from William Fisher in 1874, features a central Crucifixion panel within an architectural frame. Monuments on the north wall include five tablets, two by I Nelson of Shrewsbury, one of which is a white marble tablet on grey slate dedicated to Francis Allen, who died in 1852. On the south wall, a gabled white marble tablet commemorates Thomas Worthington of Buttington Hall (1831) and his wife Sarah (1842).
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