Description

SHERBOURNE Church Lane

15/244 Church of All Saints

11.4.67

GV II*

Parish church. 1862-4. Architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. Large estate
church in Early English/Decorated style. Ashlar built with plain tile roofs.
Comprising: nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north and south organ chamber
and chapel, north west tower with porch and south vestry. Cinquefoiled circular
clerestory windows. North transept in organ chamber by Oldrid Scott circa 1882
and has statues of David and two angels under canopies, carved by Brindley of
Farmer and Brindley. Tall north west tower and long thin spire with gabled
belfry and detached polygonal pinnacles rising from corner buttress. Interior:
arcades of polychrome marble. Vaulted south chapel and north organ chamber.
Pulpit stair by Skidmore of Coventry. Stained glass mostly by Clayton and Bell
and by Hardman in south chapel. Ryland tomb chest in south chapel. The church
was built by Miss Louisa Ann Ryland for £20,000. The Rylands were Birmingham
industrialists. There are some C18 headstones in the churchyard.

Listing NGR: SP2622361184

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552094

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)