Description

LUDDINGTON

SP15SE VILLAGE STREET
1931-1/4/64 (South side (off))
02/08/72 Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. 1871-72. By John Cotton. Coursed blue lias with
sandstone ashlar and buff brick dressings; tile roofs.
STYLE: Gothic.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel and 3-bay nave with north-east angle tower
and north porch.
EXTERIOR: off-set buttresses and coped gables. Chancel has
off-set angle buttresses; brick cornice and sill course;
3-light east window has hood with stops, foundation stone
below dated 1871 with cross in circle; 2 traceried lights to
north, and one to south next to canted vestry projection with
short finial and east entrance with shouldered lintel.
Nave has tower to north-east angle with diagonal buttress,
cinquefoil to east with dripstone and north lancet; string
course and broached octagonal stage with slots; pointed
bell-openings and swept slate spire with wind vane; north side
has 2-light window and lancet, open timber gabled porch has
trefoil-headed lights on low stone walls, enriched front
framing and bargeboards with finial; pierced-work inner
fascias; inner door has chamfered reveals and double-chamfered
arch to paired doors.
South side has 2-light window with flanking lancets.
West end has diagonal buttresses and lancets flanking tall
central buttress.
INTERIOR: chancel has coupled rafter roof, recess to organ
loft with vestry entrance to left and moulded chancel arch on
musical angel corbels, chancel steps with stencilled texts;
nave has scissor truss roof. Fittings: plain stalls and pews;
stone pulpit with cross and dog-tooth moulding, some remaining
paint; font from old church on reused churchyard cross base
with octagonal stage on square plinth and quatrefoil frieze.
Monuments: brass wall tablets, including one to west wall in
cusped arch with marble columns; inscription indecipherable.
Stained glass: a good and complete set of c1870 windows.
Church replaces one on site to north of village green,
believed to have been the place of William Shakespeare's
marriage.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 346; All Saints Church Luddington: Luddington:
1970-1990).

Listing NGR: SP1670752499

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662775

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

• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)