Church in Cheshire, England
All Saints Church, Great Saughall All Saints Church, Great Saughall, from the southeast
All Saints Church, Great Saughall
Location in Cheshire
53°13′38″N 2°57′19″W / 53.2272°N 2.9552°W / 53.2272; -2.9552 OS grid reference SJ 363 704 Location Church Road, Saughall , Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website All Saints, Saughall Status Parish church Consecrated 23 October 1901 Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 10 October 1985 Architect(s) J. Medland Taylor Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1895 Completed 1910 Materials Brick, tiled roofsSlate roof to the spire Province York Diocese Chester Archdeaconry Chester Deanery Wirral, South Parish All Saints, Great Saughall Vicar(s) Dave Nugent Reader(s) Alison Harris Churchwarden(s) Roger Leslie Parish administrator John Hallas
All Saints Church, Great Saughall , is located in Church Road in the civil parish of Saughall and Shotwick Park , formerly Saughall and before that Great Saughall , in the county of Cheshire , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester .[ 1] National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[ 2]
History
All Saints was built as a chapel of ease to St Michael's Church, Shotwick . The foundation stone was laid on 31 July 1895 by the Honorable Mrs Trelawny of Shotwick House . It was designed by the Manchester architect J. Medland Taylor, and built at an estimated cost of £1,288 (equivalent to £190,000 in 2023).[ 3] consecrated by Francis Jayne , Bishop of Chester , on 23 October 1901.[ 4] [ 5] aisle , a spire on the tower and, at the east end, a chancel , sanctuary , organ chamber, and vestry . The parishioners paid for the new aisle, and the rest was donated by the Vernon family, then living at Shotwick House. The expanded church was consecrated by the bishop of Chester on 4 January 1911. All Saints became a separate parish in its own right in 1921. During the last years of the 20th century the aisle was partitioned off to provide a meeting room with modern facilities.[ 4]
Architecture
The church is constructed in red Ruabon brick The body of the church has a tiled roof, and the tower is roofed in Lakeland green slate .[ 2] bay nave and north aisle with a projecting baptistry at the west end, a south porch, north and south transepts , a short chancel with a polygonal apse , and a central tower.[ 2] [ 5] louvred bell openings and a corbel table. It is surmounted by a broach spire containing more louvred openings. The windows in the nave are triple lancets ; those in the apse are double lancets, the east window having its base higher than the lateral windows. The windows in the aisle have either two or four lights.[ 2]
Inside the church is a four-bay arcade . In the chancel is an opus sectile reredos made by Powells .[ 5] Angels Appearing to the Shepherds .[ 2] [ 5] manual organ was built in 1918 by Poyser of Chester .[ 6]
External features
The churchyard contains five war graves, containing four soldiers of World War I , and an Aircraftwoman of World War II .[ 7]
See also
References
^ All Saints, Great Saughall Church of England , retrieved 17 February 2012 ^ a b c d e Historic England . "Church of All Saints, Saughall (1320409)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 17 February 2012 .^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" . MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 7 May 2024 .
^ a b Saughall Parish Church the original on 9 February 2012, retrieved 17 February 2012 ^ a b c d Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward ; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , pp. 380–381, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 ^ (Cheshire), Saughall, Great, All Saints, Church Road (P00205) British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 17 February 2012 ^ GREAT SAUGHALL (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 3 February 2013
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