Description

SD 80 NW,
8/163

STAND,
CHURCH LANE,
Church of All Saints

15.08.66

I

Commissioners' church of 1822-6. Charles Barry's first building. Fanciful mixed
gothic in style, with attenuated proportions. Ashlar West tower with ground stage
forming enormously lofty open porch, which has wings with elongated lancets. Upper
stage of tower has paired lancets. Sides of church have five long windows each sub-
divided into two by panelled band corresponding to internal galleries. Battlements
and tall pinnacles. Canted apsidal east end. INTERIOR has slender perpendicular
piers carrying two tierceron-star plaster vaults, each over two bays of nave. Ribbed
apse vault is repeated over west gallery. Stained glass in east window probably
c1830-50. Monuments to James Ramsbottom (d 1835), with bust, and to James Clegg
(d 1836), with bust on high base bearing figures of Faith, Charity and Hope in
relief. Carillon of 1906. (A. H. Ballard, All Saints, Stand; N. Pevsner, South
Lancashire.)

Listing NGR: SD8032105989

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints' Church, Whitefield at Wikipedia
• All Saints' Church, Whitefield official website
• Wikidata Q4729357

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)