Description

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SU 85 SW
10/1

FLEET
CHURCH ROAD
Church of All Saints

II*

1862. by William Burges. Nave and aisles of 6 bays the 2 western ones an
addition of 1934 chancel of one bay with apse, vestry to north east with
modern extensions (including a Lady Chapel of 1958). The interior has a
pointed barrel vault roof in timber with brick arches separating the bays,
continuing to the ground are pilasters attached to the square pillars which
separate the pointed arches of the arcade. There are half-arches in brickwork
in the aisles, resting on impost blocks. The red brick interior is marked by
single bands and plinth, and by the painting of yellow and black bands and
yellow mitifs: the polychromatic treatment has disappeared in the chancel, now
painted white. Externally, the lack of clerestorey emphasises the
steeply-pitched red tile roofing, and there is a tall 2 bell gabled turret at
the east end of the nave. Walling is in red brickwork, with a decorative
eaves band of diagonal bricks, above cusped arches resting on small brackets:
horizontal plain mouldings at impost level (carried over the openings), at
cill level, plinth. Buttresses of 2 steps divide the bays, which each contain
a pair of lancets. The west gable has a circular window with plate tracery,
this is re-set from the original west wall, the aisles terminating in coupled
lancets beneath a cusped roundel, the, the nave ending in a group of 3
lancets. North and south doors contain tympanum sculpture. Within is a
canopied tomb of medieval style, with the effigies of the founder (C H Lefroy)
and his wife. All the windows have heavy leaded lights, some with circular
and others with lozenge shaped glass.

Listing NGR: SP7424762965

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints Church, Fleet at Wikipedia
• All Saints Church, Fleet official website
• Wikidata Q4729466

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