Description

POOLE

SZ09SE WESTERN ROAD, Branksome Park
958-1/6/208 (West side)
Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. 1875-77. By Burton and Stevens of Bournemouth. For
Henry Bury. Porch added 1928. Coursed squared Purbeck stone
with limestone dressings; tiled roof with ornamental
crestings.
PLAN: apsed chancel, vestry and organ chamber to NW of
chancel, nave and W porch. Decorated Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 2-bay chancel has 5-sided apse with offset
buttresses terminating in trefoiled gablets and 2-light
windows with cusped heads to lights, quatrefoil to head and
hoodmoulds with label stops. A pair of similar windows to S
side of chancel.
2-storey vestry and organ chamber to N side of chancel has
hipped roof and paired lancet windows to E side at upper
level, 3 similar lancets to N side, chamfered doorway to N and
3-light stone mullion window at lower level to W side; C20
extension to E side and offset angle buttresses.
5-bay nave has 2-light windows with cusped heads to lights
and, alternately trefoils in spherical triangle and encircled
quatrefoils to heads with hoodmould and label stops. Wheel
window in W gable with 8 spokes, trefoiled heads to divisions
and central quatrefoil. Pointed ventilation slit above and
single bellcote to apex with stone-coped gable, kneelers and
foliated gable cross.
W door has 2 orders of shafts, double keel-moulded head and
hoodmould. Now in porch with chamfered doorway to N and larger
doorway to W with chamfered jambs, moulded head and hoodmould.
Offset buttresses to W end of nave, similar buttresses between
bays, stone-coped nave gables with kneelers and foliated gable
cross to E end of nave. Plinth, chamfered stone eaves and
corbel table to nave.
INTERIOR: nave and chancel have pitch pine hammerbeam roofs
resting on wall shafts. Chancel has 2-bay arcade at upper
level to organ chamber with central pier of quatrefoil section
and shafts to responds. Vestry door below with 1 order of
shafts and keelmoulded head. Chancel arch has responds of
trefoil section and many-moulded head.
FITTINGS: limestone reredos to high altar with paired
alabaster colonnettes pinnacles, corbel table and inset relief
panel with Last Supper. Fine set of late C19 stained-glass
windows to chancel depicting various saints, of uniform
design. Stencilled walls below windows (renewed). Brass double
corona chandelier. Low wrought-iron chancel screen on stone
base, with brass enrichments. Matching brass lectern.
Polygonal limestone pulpit with red marble shafts, and foliage
ornament to cornice. Medieval font bowl from Church of St
Edmund, Salisbury, of Purbeck marble. Bowl is octagonal, and
has paired blank arches to sides with round trefoil heads; C19
circular stem with 4 short serpentine shafts, limestone
foliage capitals and moulded bases, on octagonal plinth.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the church was built for Henry Bury of
Branksome Towers and the exclusive new suburb which he was
developing on his estate, Branksome Park. The first incumbent,
Edward Bury, was a member of the family. All Saints' is a very
complete and well-furnished small church of the 1870s, little
altered, in an unusually attractive setting.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London:
1972-; All Saints' Church Branksome Park (guide leaflet):
Poole: 1980-; Clarke, Canon B: Mss notes: 1977-1978).

Listing NGR: SZ0599890422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564956

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