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Latitude: 50.7154 / 50°42'55"N
Longitude: -2.4356 / 2°26'8"W
OS Eastings: 369344
OS Northings: 90733
OS Grid: SY693907
Mapcode National: GBR PY.RGCF
Mapcode Global: FRA 57S6.2YT
Plus Code: 9C2VPH87+5Q
Entry Name: Church of All Saints. Railings at west end, and churchyard steps at south east corner of Church of All Saints.
Listing Date: 8 May 1950
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1110582
English Heritage Legacy ID: 104320
Also known as: Church of All Saints. Railings At West End, And Churchyard Steps At South East Corner Of Church of All Saints
ID on this website: 101110582
Location: All Saints' Church, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Dorchester
Built-Up Area: Dorchester
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Dorchester and West Stafford
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Church building
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SY 6990
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HIGH EAST STREET (South Side)
Church of All Saints.
Railings at west end, and churchyard steps at south east corner of Church of All Saints.
8.5.50.
II*
1843-5. Architect: Benjamin Ferrey, assisted by A D H Acland-Troyte, who also helped (physically) to build it. Hammer dressed limestone with ashlar Ham stone dressings. Pitched stone slate roofs, with coped gables on kneelers. Four bay nave, two aisles, vestry, chancel and north west tower. Moulded plinth, string below windows, carved ornament in eaves cornice. Buttresses. Windows with reticulated tracery. Tower has deeply moulded and traceried bell openings. Octagonal broach spire with three storeys of traceried lucarnes, each with its gablet over. Deeply moulded and elaborately carved door in base of tower, with crocketed gable and circle with inscribed trilobe in tympanum: the carving was personally excuted by Acland-Troyte.
Interior has hammer-beam roof with elegant wind braces. Fine monument to Matthew Chubb (1617) in porch.
Ornamental iron railings and gates at west end, and lamp bracket at south east corner lighting ashlar steps into church yard.
All Saint's Church and Nos 21 to 26 (consec) form a group with No 1 Cornhill.
Listing NGR: SY6934490733
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