List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
List entry Number: 1176684
Location
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STANSTED ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Hertfordshire | East Hertfordshire | District Authority | Bishop's Stortford |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 11-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 160972
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
1.
5253 STANSTED ROAD
(East Side)
Church of All Saints
TL 4921 SW:4/79
II
2.
1936 by S E Dykes Bower. Rough limestone with ashlar dressings. West front to road
has tall, broad, central tower with steep, hipped, red tile roof. Three excessively
tall lancets beneath 2 smaller ones and eaves cornice. Flanking single storey aisles
have doors recessed in cinquefoil arches. Buttresses at angles and to aisle walls.
Steps and walls to front. Interior. Tall nave of 4 bays with giant drum piers and
pointed arches; coffered wagon roof. Aisless chancel has east rose window with
flowing tracery and 2 south windows of paired plain lancets beneath a multifoil
oculus. Four trefoiled sedilia. Aisles have paired lancets and steep coffered roofs.
C19 open timber lych gate at south west corner of churchyard with cruciform shingle
roof and traceried side panels. Part of original 1851 church, burnt 1935. The church
dominates the east aspect of the town. (Pevsner 2nd Ed Rev (1977) 102).
Listing NGR: TL4937421401
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry - Title: Hertfordshire - Date: 1977 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England - Page References: 102
National Grid Reference: TL 49374 21401
Map
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