Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW CHURCH STREET, Lower Brixham
1946-1/10/143 (North West side)
18/10/49 Church of All Saints including front
churchyard wall, gates and gate
piers
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
Church of All Saints (Lower Brixham))

GV II

Parish church. 1884-1906, possibly incorporating parts of the
original church of c1819-24. South aisle (1885), north aisle
and west front (1892) by G Somers-Clarke. Tower and Lady
Chapel (1900-06) by JT Micklethwaite. Squared Devonian
limestone rubble; the top stage of tower and the dressings
apparently of oolitic limestone; mostly probably Bath stone,
although the south-east nave window may be of Beer stone.
Tiled roof.
Nave orientated NW-SE with east and west aisles; chancel with
east and west chancel chapels; additional west aisle (probably
the former Lady Chapel) with tower at south end. Perpendicular
style with traceried windows. South end of nave flanked by
tall, octagonal pinnacled buttresses; at either side of these
is a small entrance-porch, reached from Church Street by a
long flight of stone steps. Main entrance is by a
pointed-arched doorway in the tower, this having 3 empty
niches above it; doorway carved with date 1906. 3-stage tower
with pinnacles. Lady Chapel with buttresses.
INTERIOR: nave has arcade of 5 pointed arches each side; 4
similar arches opening into Lady Chapel. Chancel has 3-sided
north end; chancel arch with coloured marble shafts. Cranked
arched from east aisle to chancel-chapel and from chancel to
both chapels; these are supported by elaborately carved
corbels, those to the west chapel (which contains the organ)
taking the form of angels with musical instruments. Boarded
waggon-roof, with bosses, to nave. Pitched beamed roofs to
aisles, that to the Lady Chapel with bosses. Open roofs with
arch-braced trusses to chancel and east chancel chapel. At
south end of nave 2 stone plaques. One records the start of
the rebuilding of the church in 1884, and the other a new nave
roof in 1898.
Fittings: sexagonal wooden pulpit in Gothic style, carved with
seaweed; taken from the original church. Black marble font in
east aisle; probably early C19. Pink marble font at south end
of nave, with inscription recording baptism in 1874. Reredos
in chancel; 1938 by Stanley N Babb.
Monuments: east chancel chapel; Henry Francis Lyte (d.1847),
first vicar of the parish and author of the hymn 'Abide with
Me'. Statue of St Peter, brought from the former Church of St
Peter the Fisherman, Brixham. Stained-glass windows to
chancel, east chancel chapel, east aisle, Lady Chapel.
Subsidiary features: Front curtilage-wall to west of church is
of squared Devonian limestone rubble with a moulded coping. At
west end square gate piers with ball finials; iron gates with
scrollwork.
(The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd ed): London:
1989-: 829; All Saints', Brixham, Restoration Appeal leaflet:
Brixham: 1987-; White W: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of
Devonshire: Sheffield: 1850-: 426).

Listing NGR: SX9232856153

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580987

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