Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032SW KILLIGREW STREET
843-1/9/139 (South East side)
23/01/73 Church of All Saints
(Formerly Listed as:
KILLIGREW ROAD
All Saints Church)

GV II*

Anglican church. 1887-90, by JD Sedding, on a site presented
by the Earl of Kimberley, the foundation stone laid November
2nd 1887 by the Prince of Wales; consecrated in 1890 by the
Bishop of Barbados, acting for the Bishop of Truro; north
transept extended 1926. Grey Plymouth limestone, brought to
course with Ham Hill and Doulting dressings including windows
with tracery, those to aisles and transepts with hood-moulds,
impost strings and sill strings; plinth string, weatherings to
buttresses and gable copings; steep asbestos slate roofs;
stone stack to south-east corner of south transept; steep roof
over octagonal bellcote to east side of north transept and
small turret to north-east corner.
PLAN: nave with narrow aisles, equal transepts flanking
chancel; porch/vestries to inner east angles, the north-east
vestry over a crypt; north entrance via north porch in angle
with transept and projecting west entrance.
EXTERIOR: free Gothic style. Bays divided by large buttresses
with long offsets; 5 stepped lancets under round arch to east
end; lean-to between flanking buttresses and same eaves line
to hip-roofed porch/vestry on either side. West end has 3
lancets between deep buttresses partly encased by lean-to
porch/narthex with central doorway; blind rose window to
gable. 4-bay aisles with 3-light traceried windows and 2-light
traceried window to each transept. All openings with pointed
arches except for 2 x 2-light windows and single light at east
end and round-headed slits under oculi to bellcote.
INTERIOR: 4:1 bays; round-arched freestone and
brought-to-course stonework arcades on chamfered and moulded
piers; boarded barrel ceiling with thin ribs on bracketed
wallplate to nave/chancel; similar ceilings on moulded
wallplates to transepts; plaster panelled ceilings with
diaphragm arches and corbels to inner sides over aisles;
plastered outer walls.
FITTINGS: 1895 pulpit of alabaster and marble, presented by
Major Bowyer in memory of his sister; large elaborate
freestone and alabaster Perpendicular style reredos of 1910
with the Ascension flanked by panels including the Apostles,
Cornish Celtic Saints and historical figures all within
ogee-arched panels with trailing vine cornices and cresting
above; simple square marble font with wooden cover on a fat
round central shaft and 4 slender corner shafts; large
American organ originally built 1894 by Hele of Plymouth and
later enlarged; late C19 or early C20 Gothic style oak choir
stalls with ogee arches and linenfold detail; original brass
and mahogany communion rail: Lady Chapel (north transept) has
altar with carved wooden canopy above and a fine carving of
Virgin and Child, both of 1926 by Miss Pinwell.
Stained glass includes west window by Pownell of Falmouth.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cornwall: London:
1951-1970: 67; Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London:
1910-: 105; Church Guide).

Listing NGR: SW8030932441

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints' Church, Falmouth at Wikipedia
• All Saints' Church, Falmouth official website
• Wikidata Q4729316

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