All Saints Church is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. Church.
All Saints Church
- WRENN ID
- gilded-banister-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1953
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Perpendicular style. Nave, chancel, S porch, N vestry, W bellcote. Random rubble with ashlar dressings, and slate roof. Bellcote has a steep gable with ornate Celtic cross on the ridge. Bell is housed in an opening with a lancet arch, which has weatherboarding and louvres. Gables of the nave and chancel have dressed stone copings. Chancel gable has a Celtic cross on the ridge. Nave and chancel buttressed, except E wall which is splayed at the base. Three-light Perpendicular style W window. E window of 3 lights in Perpendicular style with hood mould and foliage stops. N and S walls have generally 3-light windows under square heads. Coped, gabled porch, with a Celtic cross on the ridge. Its E and W walls have a pair of cusped lights under square heads, and with segmental rere-arches. The doorway is triple-chamfered with no capitals, and has a hood mould with foliage stops. S doorway has a single order of keeled shafts, running up into the arch without capitals. There is a wooden angel above the door. The door has decorative ironwork. Vestry is gabled, with a doorway on the north side. A stack rises from the nave roof here, of 3 stepped stages, the upper stage of brick.
Interior is dominated by the 7-bay nave and chancel roof. Arch-braced trusses with cusped diagonal struts. Each bay has 3 tiers of windbraces forming quatrefoils, with boarded panels behind, between moulded ribs. The 3 eastern bays have ribs embossed with a variety of foliage designs. Rafters stand on a moulded cornice, beneath which are 4 posts to each bay, with boarding behind, standing on the moulded wall plate.
Principals stand on hammer beams with carved angels on the ends. Beneath the hammer beams are tall bracketed wall posts standing on corbels of alternately male and female heads. Interior of the building is plastered white. East window, by Clayton & Bell, shows the Crucifixion. W window, by Wailes, commemorates the Hamer sisters of Glanhafren. Hexagonal font in Perpendicular style with a panelled stem and Tudor roses in quatrefoils around the bowl.
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