Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1980. Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
eastward-flint-sienna
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 November 1980
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a parish church, dating to the 15th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a roof covered in concrete plain tiles, featuring shaped rafter ends, coped gables with kneelers. The church includes a small, single-cell main body with a west bellcote and a 15th-century stone-tiled timber-framed west porch. The bellcote, likely from the 19th century, has two arched openings and a coped gable, containing two bells, one dating back to the 13th century.

The south wall features a red stone, flat-headed, three-light 15th-century window with ogee heads to the lights and a timber lintel. To the east of this is a small Tudor-arched light, once belonging to the former rood stair, followed by a blocked Tudor-arched chancel door (where much of the stonework has been renewed), and a red stone, flat-headed, two-light 15th-century window with perpendicular tracery. The east end has a 19th-century cross finial and a three-light 15th-century window with a four-centred arch, ogee heads to the lights, and panel tracery above, all set within a hollow-moulded surround. The north wall is windowless.

The west porch has a rubble stone base supporting a timber frame. The front doorway is double-ogee moulded with a Tudor-arched head, while the open gable has a collar. The sides are two-bay, featuring cross beams and plank panels below. The roof is a single-purlin, two-bay structure with two pairs of chamfered wind-braces and arch-braced collar trusses. The west door is stone Tudor-arched with a deep hollow outer moulding and a double inner moulding, with a studded plank door.

Inside, the church has a single cell with a 15th-century oak screen dividing the chancel. The walls are rubble stone, heavily cement-pointed, while the floors are stone flagged with memorial slabs. The restored 15th-century panelled barrel roof consists of six by ten panels, with ribs moulded into floral bosses at the intersections; many ribs have been replaced, and all bosses are replacements. A moulded oak wall plate is present. The south wall window sits within a recess extending down to the floor. A blocked broad opening is visible on the north wall, defined by stone voussoirs. The chancel’s south wall contains a blocked door, and the north wall has a 19th-century window within a pointed arch. The oak screen has a central Tudor-arched opening with moulded posts, a moulded beam across the top, and four-bay sides. The central opening is adorned with small crocketed finials attached to rounded and square shafts with a cap between. The sides feature a horizontal beam, open below, and four open panels above. Mullions and crude, flat 15th-century tracery are present within the heads; the tracery was renewed around 1950. The rear of the main beam is deeply coved. There is no visible rood stair. A hexagonal font, possibly dating from the 13th or early 14th century, has 'malt-shovel' panels to its chamfered underside, a hexagonal stem, and a round base. Open-back bench pews dating from around 1870 feature pegged mortice joints. Matching open altar rails possess cusped angle braces, and a stone altar has a fossil marble slab top, with a mid-20th century curtained back under a timber hood. A small, ogee-headed piscina is located below the south window sill.

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