Description

TORQUAY

SX9064 BAMPFYLDE ROAD, Torre
885-1/13/451 (West side)
20/11/52 Parish Church of All Saints
(Formerly Listed as:
BAMFYLDE ROAD
Parish Church of All Saints,
Tormohun)

II

Parish church. 1883-9 to the designs of JL Pearson; contractor
F.Matthews of Babbacombe; total cost »11,000. Local grey
limestone brought to course; Bathstone dressings; natural
slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Geometric Decorated
style.
PLAN: Nave; chancel with polygonal apse; lean-to north and
south aisles; transepts to west and east; west end northex.
EXTERIOR: Polygonal east end, the apse windows 2-light with
decorated tracery and divided by polygonal shafts with two
3-light windows to north and south of chancel. East transepts
with angle buttresses and 5-light traceried windows. 4-bay
buttressed lean-to aisles with 2-light traceried windows. West
transepts with 3-light windows with unusual tracery. West end
with big 6-light traceried west window and open 3-bay
buttressed narthex flanked by large nave buttresses
terminating in polygonal turrets with stone spires: the north
side turret a belfry. Moulded outer arches to the narthex,
which has a timber roof with cusped trusses, pair of moulded
inner doorways with 2-leaf boarded, studded doors with
ornamental strap hinges. West side walls of west end transepts
with 2-light traceried windows. C19 lamp on large wrought-iron
bracket fixed to north side. The south side exploits the steep
wedge-shaped site with a vestry complex on the south side of
the chancel overlooking Mill Lane.
INTERIOR: 4-bay arcades with columns with clustered shafts.
Alternate bays have stone arches across the nave, which has a
keeled open wagon roof. Aisles have quadripartite stone
vaulted roofs with ribs. Drum pulpit with carved sides. Fine
octagonal marble font, given by the architect (information
from the incumbent) with similarities of design to
Butterfield's font at All Saints, Babbacombe (qv). Candelabra,
said to be of non-English design. C19 floor tiling. Set of
Clayton and Bell stained glass.
SPECIAL FEATURES: Vestry has engraving of church with intended
tower; church formerly had a carillon.
HISTORY: Agatha Christie was baptised here.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989:
P.848).

Listing NGR: SX9073764341

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568745

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)