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Latitude: 52.0144 / 52°0'51"N
Longitude: -0.5794 / 0°34'45"W
OS Eastings: 497587
OS Northings: 236057
OS Grid: SP975360
Mapcode National: GBR F21.QBD
Mapcode Global: VHFQR.XM1N
Plus Code: 9C4X2C7C+P6
Entry Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Listing Date: 23 January 1961
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1114055
English Heritage Legacy ID: 38370
ID on this website: 101114055
Location: All Saints' Church, Ridgmont, Central Bedfordshire, MK43
County: Central Bedfordshire
Civil Parish: Ridgmont
Built-Up Area: Ridgmont
Traditional County: Bedfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ridgmont
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Church building
RIDGMONT HIGH STREET
SP 9736
11/73 Parish Church of All
23.1.61 Saints
GV II*
Parish Church. 1854-5 by Sir G G Scott for the Bedford Estates. Coursed
stone with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs. Chancel, N vestry/organ
chamber,nave, N and S aisles, N porch, W tower. Late C13 style. Mostly
pointed-arched windows whose dripstones have moulded foliate stops. Bands of
geometric ornamentation in ironstone to tower and around heads of windows.
Chancel has 3-light E window with geometrical tracery. Vestry and both aisles
have mainly paired trefoiled lights in regular arrangements. Nave has 4
quatrefoil windows to each side of clerestory. 4-bay pointed-arched arcades
to both sides. Similar chancel and tower arches. Gabled porch has steeply
pitched roof and 2 quatrefoil wndows to W. Stone-coped gables to all above
parts, that to chancel with carved stone cross finial at apex. W tower is in
3 stages with setback buttresses rising to 2nd stage. 2-light W window to
ground stage, single lights to all sides of 2nd stage, 2-light windows to all
sides of bell-stage. Octagonal stair turret adjoins NE angle, rising
slightly above tower parapet. Stone broach spire with moulded decoration to
each angle and ornamental lucarnes to alternate sides. Interior: relatively
simple but consistent decoration. Wagon roofs to nave and chancel. Stencil
patterning between rafters in some parts. Black-letter texts to aisle walls.
Foliate carving to capitals. Octagonal marble font on clustered columns, with
carved panels.
Listing NGR: SP9758736057
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