Description

SD 95 SW BROUGHTON CHURCH LANE

2/25 Church of All Saints

I
10.9.54

Church, perhaps early C16. Rubble with stone slate roof. West tower, nave and
chancel roofed continuously, north aisle and south porch. Perpendicular style.
Irregular fenestration with square-headed windows with round-headed lights. East
window of 3 cusped traceried lights. Tower has diagonal buttresses, gargoyles,
battlements and pinnacles. Arched belfry windows and 2-light square-headed window
to first stage. South porch has heavy collars to roof and protects a C12 doorway
of one order of waterleaf capitals (shafts lost). There is a round-headed blocked
priest's door in the south side of the chancel.
Interior: 6-bay arcade on octagonal columns. Plain chamfered tower arch. Nave
has C19 king-post roof, the trusses carried on short hammer posts from corbels.
Chancel has perhaps C16 roof of king posts and collars with cambered trusses and
brattished wall plate. Furnishings include parclose screen with traceried heads,
to north aisle, and 2 alabaster figures of The Virgin, early C16, found in churchyard
and now fixed on window sills. Several memorials to Tempest family.

Listing NGR: SD9340750359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17538073

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy