Description

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BALTERLEY C.P.
Balterley
Church of All Saints

[Formerly listed as Church of All Saints, A.52 (north side)]

II

Parish church. 1901. By Austin and Paley. Red brick (English stretcher bond) with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with stone coped verges. Gothic style. Two-bay nave and single-bay chancel in one with buttresses at the division between the two; north-east vestry and south-west porch.

Nave and chancel: two-light side windows; the outer ones are square-headed with trefoil-headed lights whereas the central one is pointed and breaks through the eaves as a gabled dormer; it has cusped tracery of late Decorated character. Pointed three-light east window with Perpendicular tracery; stone cross at apex of east gable. three-light west window with Perpendicular tracery; western bellcote with double-ogee arched-opening and pedimented gable surmounted by a cross.

Porch: timber-framed gable bracketed out over a nail-studded door.

Vestry: the north side has a window of three cusped lights and a door with square head.

Interior: pine wall panelling to window sill level. Double collar roof supporting collar purlin and two pairs of side purlins. Organ recess on north side of chancel with a segmental pointed arch.

Fittings: font with moulded base, marble pedestal and octagonal basin with moulded base and small wooden cover in a Gothic style. Octagonal wooden pulpit with linen-fold panels. Wooden screen with Perpendicular tracery. Simple altar and panelled reredos covered with shields. Brass altar rail.

Listing NGR: SJ7613050384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints Church, Balterley at Wikipedia
• All Saints Church, Balterley official website
• Wikidata Q4729441

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)