Listing Text

TG 13 NE
5/26
4.10.60

GRESHAM
Church of All Saints

II*

Parish church. Medieval. Flint and ironbound conglomerate with stone dressings
Slate and pantile roofs. West tower; nave, chancel, south porch.
Embattled round tower probably of C13. Small round-headed opening to west
with conglomerate dressings. Cusped Y-tracery bell-openings. Conglomerate
quoins of earlier church in west wall of nave to the south, herringbone
conglomerate to north. Buttressed nave of 4 bays with diagonal buttresses.
To the south, 2 windows of 2 cusped lights restored in the C19, with quatrefoils
in the head; between these a 3-light square headed window with panel
tracery. To the north, a blocked doorway with hood mould; 3 similar windows.
Chancel. Some conglomerate in chancel walling; diagonal buttresses. To the
south a C19 brick buttress. One Y-tracery window, one restored cusped Y-
tracery window. To the north a C19 outshut. Restored east window of 3 lights
with Decorated tracery. 2-storey south porch with diagonal buttresses. Stair
turret to west with slit lights. South face of porch in knapped flint;
continuous chamfer to archway; alternate flint and conglomerate voussoirs.
Above this a niche flanked by single lights all under hood mould; quatrefoil
light under hood mould over. Continuous chamfer to nave doorway. Interior.
Nave roof replaced in 1856. Chancel arch with 2 continuous chamfered orders.
Lancet piscina in chancel. Fine C15 seven sacrament font. Blocked 4-centred
arch formerly to rood-loft.

Listing NGR: TG1674238562