Description

The following building shall be added:

SD 71 SE ORRELL STREET

326-/5/10011 Church of All Saints

II

Anglican church. 1843, with minor C20 alterations. By John Harper of York, architect.
Regularly-coursed, squared sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings,and Welsh-slated roofs.
Transeptal plan in the Romanesqe style ,with an east tower above the nave,choir vestry, organ
chamber,north and south transepts, broad nave and porch at west end. 3-stage tower with
shallow clasping buttresses to first stage and tall semi-circular headed 2-light window serving
chancel on west face. 3rd stage with tall triple arched belfry openings below cornice and shallow
ashlar parapet. Single-storey choir vestry to north,then tall gabled organ chamber with multi-foil
window to gable apex, above a pair of tall lancets. Further west, gable to north transept with
deeply recessed blind semi-circular arched opening, flanked by blind 5-bay arcades. Above,tall
3-light window with deeply-chamfered reveals, set upon moulded string course. 3 1/2 bay nave,
the bays delineated by shallow buttresses. Stylised corbel table below eaves. Broad west gable
with central gabled porch having semi circular arched double doorway to centre. South transept
repeats detail of that to north. Further east,flat roofed clergy vestry with semi-circular headed
doorway to east. Interior; few original furnishings survive, but west gallery retains enclosed pews
behind arcaded front panel. Staircases to gallery with simple turned balusters. Shafts to crossing
with simple cushion capitals. C20 screen to north transept, and C20 panelling to chancel.
Memorial windows to John Henry Thompson, d. 1941, depicting St Martin and St George on
nave north wall. The church is an example of the Italian Romanesque style popular throughout
the country in the 1840's.

Listing NGR: SD7945811144

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552031

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)