Description

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SY 6990
7/2

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints Church, Dorchester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q65043018

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]